Based on the number of naive comments asking about video cameras in the capitol, It seems as if many Kossacks are quite uninformed about modern office building security and surveillance. For my fellow Kossacks, this is an innocent lack of knowledge with no consequences — compared to the stupidity of the seditionists who stormed the capitol, and whose lack of such knowledge will likely seal their fate.
To the best of my knowledge, there security cameras all over public/shared spaces and passageways, but few in the Capitol’s private offices. I assume that ayalysts will spend weeks examining video data, probably aided by AI (artificial intelligence) algorithms to find “suspicious” or “interesting” video segments for the analysts to review. As a former corporate senior network administrator, I am not worried about the video data being deleted or modified, because for many years now, the digital information (metadata) for any “shared” file that is modified or deleted is “flagged” with the IDs of the authorized person doing the modifications or deletion.
I’s hard to imagine that the contents of thousands of VHS “tapes” can now be stored on one tiny MicroSD card! And tens of thousands on a single HDD like the 18 terabyte Western Digital unit below. And one of those 18Tb HDDs scan accept feeds from 64 high-definition cameras simultaneously!
Background: I am not an expert on the latest technology and procedures being used in security and surveillance, but the general data security I mentioned above were routine when I was a contract network administrator working at the HQs of several different major corporations in San Francisco in the late 1990s — more than 20 years ago.
And speaking of tape, in 1998 I worked at the Wells Fargo Business Banking Group, where I was responsible for changing tapes (yes — real digital data tapes) in the server closets on several floors of the high-rise. It took all night to back up one file server. I was also responsible for one year for rotating backup tapes via courier pouches from San Fransisco to and from 52 Wells Fargo Business Banking office locations around the Western USA! All of the data on all of those tapes in my long row of filing-cabinet type fire resistant storage cabinets would probably fit on a dozen or two of those 18Tb 3.5” Western Digital drives.