(Getting the data took 30 requests and 16 appeals).
Even then, the I.S.O., hunting fruitlessly for data, took no action.
Simply displaying a screen-full of data took up three-quarters of the RAM.
The device was launched in 2004, and analyzing the data took years.
The process of transferring this data took Dr. Lee a long time, nearly 40 hours over a 70-day period.
Vincenzetti said: "This is not an impromptu initiative: the attack was planned for months, with significant resources, the extraction of data took a long time".
The most recent forest maps of Indonesia, produced from Landsat satellite data, took three years from the time the data was taken to being posted online.
When it came to the computer's memory, for example, the most obvious storage device was one in which the data took the form of vibrations in liquid mercury.
He said he supported scaling back the central bank's stimulus next month unless economic data took a turn for the worse.
The larger problem, though, is that the winding path the data took, from Facebook to Kogan to Cambridge Analytica, suggests that protecting users' information once it is in the developer ecosystem is incredibly difficult.
(9,600 bits per second, since you ask. Downloading a megabyte of data took about 25 minutes. Instead of data, all the telcos made their money from voice calls.
