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The Sony Hack and Bandwidth

Ever since the GOP (Guardians of Peace) released corporate emails and data from Sony, there’s been huge amounts of speculation. Both by media and by security professionals alike. To sum it up, there are two lines of thought that have come up:

  1. North Korea is behind this (Media & FBI)
  2. It’s an inside job (IT Security experts)

But one thing has been on my mind, if it’s true that the GOP really has 100 Terabytes of files from Sony, how long would it take them to actually get it from Sony via the Internet?
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