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SCP-2726 Euclid ~ medium confidence
SCP-2726
Expected annual
$1.9M
One-time setup
$194K
Annual recurring
$1.8M
Personnel
8
Initial setup costs are modest (~$194,000) for secure accounts, equipment, and initial tooling; recurring annual costs are high (~$1,789,000/yr) driven primarily by staff wages, crawler maintenance/hosting, legal/cover-up expenses, amnestic treatments and contingency/reserve budgets.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $194K
Initial Research And Lab Setup $125K
[#4, #16, #17] One-time development of web-crawler/tools and deployment of research tooling (#4); training material development (#16); secure record system deployment (#17).
Equipment $37K
[#2, #3, #15] Hardened secure workstation and physical lockbox (#2); initial archival hardware/immutable media (#3); initial forensic/analytics licenses and tools (#15).
Decommissioning $30K
[#25] One-time costs for secure destruction/legacy archiving and final amnestic rounds if protocol retired.
Opsec Account Setup $2K
[#1] Foundation-operated private account creation, identity vetting, burner phone and initial OPSEC setup (one-time).
Facilities $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.8M/yr
Staff Wages $555K/yr
[#7, #11, #14, #12] Salaries and benefits for 2 full-time manual-search analysts (#7), medical/psychiatric support for staff (#11), one PI + junior researchers (#14), and on-site guard/security admin oversight (#12).
Research And Monitoring $321K/yr
[#13, #15, #16, #17, #24] Ongoing OPSEC/counterintelligence monitoring (#13), license renewals and forensic tool upkeep (#15), recurring training/refresher courses (#16), secure record system maintenance (#17), and long-term R&D contingency (mechanism study) (#24).
Disaster Recovery Reserve $200K/yr
[#22] Emergency IT contingency and disaster recovery reserve for breach or proliferation events (replenished as used).
Cover Story And Legal $175K/yr
[#6, #18, #23] Legal retainer and takedown budgets (#6), cover-up/public-facing management and PR/disinformation costs (#18), and ethical/legal oversight/committee costs (#23).
Amnestic Treatments $150K/yr
[#10] Amnestic pharmaceuticals, administration, monitoring and psychological follow-up for exposed viewers.
Incident Response Reserve $100K/yr
[#9] Contingency funds for rapid takedown surges, overtime and emergency contractor hires replenished as used.
Crawler Maintenance $78K/yr
[#4] Ongoing maintenance and updates for the MASHEDPORK-0A-2726 crawler (monthly developer/contractor support).
It Patching And Security $72K/yr
[#19] Ongoing IT patching, security updates, anti-bot countermeasures and related development work (monthly cadence).
Field Operations $60K/yr
[#8] Field operator costs for removals, social-engineering operations, burner accounts and third-party contractors for difficult deletions.
Crawler Cloud Hosting $40K/yr
[#5] Cloud hosting, bandwidth, proxies/VPNs, and compute to run the crawler and temporary storage of crawled content.
Logistics And Transport $20K/yr
[#20] Physical transport, travel and per-diem for field operations, liaison meetings and court appearances.
Facilities Maintenance $12K/yr
[#21] Electricity, data-center colocation, vault environment control and apportioned facility overhead.
Supplies And Consumables $6K/yr
[#1, #3] Recurring small OPSEC/account fees and periodic archival media replacement (air-gapped media rotation).
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.8M/yr
82.0% probability / year
Normal year with routine monitoring, maintenance, and no major incidents.
routine_crawler_activity scheduled_training_and_maintenance standard_removal_ops
🚨 Minor Incident $2.0M/yr
15.0% probability / year +$200K vs baseline
Localized proliferation event requiring surge takedown, extra legal action, and elevated field ops/amnestic usage.
localized_viral_spread multiple_difficult_removals extra_amnestic_sessions
🚨 Major Breach $3.0M/yr
3.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Widespread proliferation requiring mass takedown, large-scale amnesticization, emergency PR, and major disaster-recovery operations.
mass_proliferation platform_exposure legal_and_public_scrutiny
👥 Personnel 8 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist / PI 1 [#14] Senior investigator (Dr. Prasad or equivalent).
Research Scientist / Junior Researcher 2 [#14] One-to-two junior researchers supporting experiments and analysis.
Analyst / Manual Searcher 2 [#7] Two full-time analysts performing the 11-view manual verification SOP.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 1 [#12] Full-time on-site guard enforcing single-viewer policy.
Security Administrator / Oversight 1 [#12] Security admin oversight and access control audits.
Medical Officer / Psychiatric 1 [#11] Medical/psychiatric support for exposed personnel and amnestic administration oversight.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide explicit line-item ranges for most costs, enabling informed estimates; however anomalous behavior and uncertain incident frequencies (breach/proliferation dynamics) introduce material uncertainty, so confidence is medium.
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