18 May
2006
18 May
'06
7:18 p.m.
Eugene Leitl said...
How would you trace back large scale purchases of hard drives and computer clusters to a TLA? They have to use contractors for that.
Ah...I think that's a very interesting question, particularly in the larger sense. Public companies have to (and are well motivated to) report on their sales. A nice deep, statistical dive could probably reveal what equipment they're buying, at least as $$$/sale-->oo. Hell, a lot of these are even annouced as "Lucent signed a $1.5B contract to supplies equipment and services to the government today..." Too bad there are no other superpowers around these days. Then again, I suspect the Soviets were always too fucked up to bother with something like that. -TD