We don't even know if this thing has a public interface and even if it did access would probably be limited to a couple dozen IPs.
Furthermore, the article assumes that an adversary gets somehow the data. We're probably talking about petabytes of storage, how on earth could you get hold of all that data? Download it? That would raise a gazillion alarms.
These are immaterial obstacles. It will have a public interface otherwise data would not get in (and there does not exist anything like a one way street in computer networking).
Extracting interesting parts of the data can be done with the tools that are available to the agents. If someone breaks in successfully, they will have someone inside feeding them. Wetware is still the weakest link in security most of the times.
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We don't even know if this thing has a public interface and even if it did access would probably be limited to a couple dozen IPs.
Furthermore, the article assumes that an adversary gets somehow the data. We're probably talking about petabytes of storage, how on earth could you get hold of all that data? Download it? That would raise a gazillion alarms.
These are immaterial obstacles. It will have a public interface otherwise data would not get in (and there does not exist anything like a one way street in computer networking). Extracting interesting parts of the data can be done with the tools that are available to the agents. If someone breaks in successfully, they will have someone inside feeding them. Wetware is still the weakest link in security most of the times.