Mandating ISPs to archive everyone s metadata sounds harmless on paper, but anyone who has tried to keep even a week of nginx logs knows the storage, security, and breach liability balloon fast.
At 100 Gbit/s per POP the disk math alone kills you, never mind OPSEC: you end up architecting a surveillance SAN that costs more than the routers.
Mandating ISPs to archive everyone s metadata sounds harmless on paper, but anyone who has tried to keep even a week of nginx logs knows the storage, security, and breach liability balloon fast.
At 100 Gbit/s per POP the disk math alone kills you, never mind OPSEC: you end up architecting a surveillance SAN that costs more than the routers.