According to the PRISM slides, the program costs $20 million per year. This article doesn't mention that, although it should, because it is telling. If the author believes that this program could be implemented at a minimum of $187 million per year, then that $20 million claim is problematic.<p>Either the $20 million claim is wrong, and then all the information on the slides is suspect, or it is correct, and the scope of PRISM is much smaller than is widely believed and is believed by the author of this article. Or the author of this article properly understands the scope and is in error in his calculation.
From TFA:<p>> Do you think that PRISM can be built using a different tech stack?<p>From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo</a> :<p>> Apache Accumulo is a sorted, distributed key/value store based on Google's BigTable design. It is a system built on top of Apache Hadoop, Apache ZooKeeper, and Apache Thrift. Written in Java, Accumulo has cell-level access labels and server-side programming mechanisms.<p>> Accumulo was created in 2008 by the National Security Agency and contributed to the Apache Foundation as an incubator project in September 2011.
I would assume the government would require services and large teams to help them make sense of the data along with the low the infrastructure described by the article.
The developer salary costs seem really outlandish. 500k euro for a "top notch developer" and 250k euro for "supporting developers". Where are these estimates coming from?
Please, our CANADIAN Firearms Registry program cost 66M a year. And that's Canada, the gun land!<p>I would expect Prim to at LEAST cost more than Instagram, no? :)