I know two VCR repair men who would be up to the job 🤔 somebody call Lighting Fast VCR!!
Those guys are a couple of hackfrauds
Techmoan can get them sorted.
I guess Foone could also have something.
I’ll lend them my VCR
Well, Ampex player, not VCR.
But still, it’s available in droves on eBay.
Christ just tell Biden to make them give them to the national archives with an executive order. They’ll figure it out.
Whoopsie! History just slips through your fingers like sand sometimes, huh?
Complete incompetence that it wasn’t digitized already.
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I’m gonna call bullshit based on the story by Snowden in his biography about his Boomer co-worker who was in charge of maintaining a tape drive that recorded all incoming communications from field agents as a backup
I mean, there’s a difference between a reel of AMPEX film that the NSA is dragging their feet on digitizing, and the modern 45TB 8gbps tape cartridges that absolutely could be used to store thousands of hours of video per day.
If I remember correctly, he said it was definitely not a modern tape drive, which is why an older man was maintaining it
It’s more modern than what’s being talked about in the article. Snowden knew his stuff, that doesn’t mean he knew what the old guy with the tape was doing tech wise.
Whatever you say man lmao clearly you didn’t read the book and are just making generalizations
Yeah, I’m not going to be reading that any time soon.
God damn! Somebody buy the government a VCR!
/s
Smart people do dumb things sometimes.
Bureaucrats aren’t known for their out-of-the-box thinking. Probably half the staff at the NSA could figure out how to get the data off the tapes, but the person in charge of this isn’t that cleaver and might think that there could be something classified on them. Either in plain sight or as in the form of some sort of Steganography. They can’t leave the building with the tapes and they can’t use someone else’s player as it might be bugged. “The Thing” probably still spokes the hell out of them.
They should call TechMoan or CathodeRayDude! One of them probably has the right player just sort of… lying around!
NSA don’t know things, they know people.
