FCIC to Goldman Sachs: “Give us everything you have that we might possibly want”
(the FCIC is the Commission that is tasked with finding out why the financial markets collapsed in 2008)
GS: Are you sure you want EVERYTHING?
FCIC: Yes, we don’t trust you – give us EVERYTHING!
GS: Okay, here is 5 Terabytes of data (5,000,000,000,000) or something like 2 Billion pages of records…
FCIC: WTF is this? we’ll be sorting out this data for 20 years and our report is due in a month and we have no clue what any of this means anyhow.
GS: Not our problem – you asked, we gave.
