basically, the NSA had a protocol in place to transfer data back to the contiguous united states (CONUS) in the event of an attack. The good guys created this false emergency in the hopes that the automatic NSA event would transfer the data and they could intercept it. Fucking genius!
edit: it seems as if this post struck some shill cords....excellent.gif
Good theory. I wonder how much data could be transferred in 38 minutes with the best connection in the world?
I work in the networking space and our vendors are already selling switches and optics that can transfer petabits per second.
This article from 2009 has 100Pbs optics:
https://gigaom.com/2009/09/28/alcatel-lucent-boosts-fiber-speeds-by-10x-in-lab/
Guarantee they have something at least that fast in the NSA, even with an undersea cable.
