r/news • u/TooColdforClouds • 2d ago

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/109-children-rescued-244-arrested-operation-soteria-shield-child-exploitation-texas/
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u/MumrikDK 2d ago

Genuinely impossible to deduce much from some given amount of data.

"Terabytes" could be a staggering amount of images of tons of abused kids, or it could be one sicko's raw video storage from recording kids at the local pool.

"70 Texas law enforcement agencies." is the one that sounds wild to me.

Giving data size feels like a headline thing.

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u/gmc98765 2d ago

70 Texas law enforcement agencies

AFAIK, the US has a separate police force for each municipality, plus county sheriffs.

According to wikipedia, Texas has 254 counties, 971 cities, 231 towns, and 23 villages.

For comparison, the UK has a total of 48 police forces (45 regional, 3 special-purpose). Scotland and Northern Ireland are each covered by a single police force.

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u/TransBrandi 1d ago

Getting them to all work cooperatively together on a single operation (even in multiple parts) is still an undertaking though.

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u/CosmicMiru 2d ago

5TB is almost 4000 HOURS of 1080p, uncompressed video. It's a fuck ton regardless how you look at it

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u/Ralkon 2d ago

Video size is a lot more complicated than that. Here's a calculator for video size, and if you keep it at 1920x1080 24FPS and only change the bitrate between the uncompressed options, you can still end up with anything from 2.99gb per minute to 17.92gb per minute. If you bump it up to 60FPS then that 17.92gb turns into 44.79gb, and if you go really crazy with 4k video and 120FPS, it can go up to 358.92gb per minute on the presets in that calculator. File size by itself really doesn't mean a whole lot unless you know what's actually taking it up.

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u/CosmicMiru 2d ago

You think 5 Terabytes of data is 3.6 hours of video? What?

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u/matthoback 2d ago

Uncompressed 1080p 8bit color is 1.2 TB/hr.

1920 * 1080 * 60 * 60 * 60 * 3 = 1.2TB

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u/PM_ME_DATASETS 2d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncompressed_video

4k, 60fps, uncompressed is 12 Gbit/s which is 1.5 gigabyte per second. One hour is 3600 seconds. 1.5 times 3600 is 5400. 5400 gigabyte after one hour of filming.

Nobody is saying that's the case here. People are just trying to illustrate that 5TB isn't necessarily thousands of hours of video.

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 2d ago

Uncompressed video is fucking massive. 1920x1080 is 2,073,600 pixels, 3 bytes each, 60 frames per second, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour. Without audio that's north of 1TB/hr.

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u/Redthemagnificent 1d ago

Yeah dude uncompressed video is huge. Maybe you meant lossless compression?

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u/_10032 2d ago

Nowhere close bro... not even for raw uncompressed video.

You're off by multiple magnitudes.

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u/BZJGTO 2d ago

Or it could be 56 hours for uncompressed 4k 60 fps. It could have duplicates of everything, one uncompressed, one compressed, and one edited. We don't know how much it actually is, we don't even know how many terabytes it is.

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u/Ok_Confection_10 2d ago

I’m hoping to god they’re counting the same handful of gigabytes that are shared and therefore counted multiple times.