And does this mean something?
This is the second cryptic message about YouTube and some SGT thingy
ASW Anti-Submarine Warfare (naval warfare)
to set the context, and then…
AWAN Airman, Aviation ASW Operator Striker (Naval Rating)
AWAN
Asynchronous Wide Area Network or Async WAN for short.
This terminology used to just describe the underlying network communications links and how they operate but nowadays people use this terminology to talk about the services that run over the network. For instance, storage…
ASYNCHRONOUS Data (File) Replication over a WAN enables asynchronous file and folder copy from one storage system to another over the Wide Area
That was a quote taken from this PDF document:
Step-by-Step Guide to Asynchronous Data (File) Replication (File Based) over a WAN
https://www.open-e.com/site_media/download/documents/Open-E_DSS_V6_Asynchronous_Data_Replication_over_a_WAN.pdf
The bottom line is that there are many vendors that sell software which makes it easy to keep live backups of your data in multiple locations. Sure, you can still sync your email account to a personal server, but there are several more copies out there, not just email, but EVERYTHING. No wonder Q says we have it all
It is typical to set things up so there are three copies. One is to a backup data center across town or in another building. But what if there is a real disaster? The town is flooded or hit by hurricane, os the local electrical grid goes down for a week, or a nuclear missile hits the city. For that, we plan a Disaster Recovery site, some place that is not in the same floodplain, not on the same faultlines, gets its electricity from a different grid or at least from a different direction.
If you had a big important operation in DC you might choose to maintain a Disaster Recovery center deep in a mine in Nevada and copy any changes to data, asynchronously, every night.
So where would YOU look for Hillary's emails, if you knew that there was a Federal Government AWAN in place?
Here's another interesting point.
If you go to a server or whatever device is connected to the AWAN
And you carefully delete all the files you don't want people to see,
what happens?
Later that night, the device communicates with the backup locations and everything gets deleted.
But wait!!!
What if after deleting them, you smash the device with a hammer?
Or you take the servers to Florida and store them in your garage?
Well, since they are no longer connected to the AWAN, the backup copies of the files just sit there, forever.
A clever prosecutor might read through the copies, find incriminating evidence, and then head to Florida with a strike team to raid that garage and get the smoking gun copies on the original servers complete with fingerprints of the people who picked it up and shipped it away from DC.
I guess this AWAN is bigger than we think.
I guess the AWAN really does have it all.
Black is beautiful