SCP-3006 — SCP-3006 | Cost Breakdown

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SCP-3006 Safe ~ medium confidence

SCP-3006

Expected annual

$1.7M

One-time setup

$3.3M

Annual recurring

$1.6M

Personnel

One-time setup and contingency costs are approximately $3.34M, with ongoing annual operations of about $1.62M; main drivers are continuous monitoring/legal response, staff wages, field ops/forensic operations, and a contingency/reserve for catastrophic storage/bandwidth blowouts.

🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $3.3M

Contingency Reserve $1.0M

[#20] One-time contingency/reserve fund to handle catastrophic storage/bandwidth blowouts or emergency global response (recommended minimum ~$1M).

Field Ops Seizure Budget $550K

[#11] Planned budget for covert retrieval/seizure operations of servers/caches/mirrors (per-operation planning aggregated into initial budget).

Unexpected Litigation Reserve $525K

[#24] One-time reserve for potential litigation settlement costs or large exposures (legal defense, settlements).

Initial Research And Lab Setup $325K

[#7] Initial 6–12 month research program buildout (salaries for initial cycle, compute cluster time, software licenses, annotation tools).

Amnestic Campaign $275K

[#10] Targeted amnestic campaign (e.g., top ~100 sharers) as an initial campaign cost (personnel, logistics, agents, follow-up).

Equipment $188K

[#5, #6, #8] Secure SAN storage setup (50–200TB) and cold/offsite backups; specialized playback/render hardware (GPUs, SSDs, redundant systems); initial forensic capture/indexing runs (frame-by-frame archival).

Software Development $150K

[#14] Development of ML duplicate detection and fingerprinting tooling (one-time dev).

Facilities $110K

[#4] Air-gapped evidence/archive lab and vault buildout (Faraday cage, EMP-safe safe, controlled access, CCTV/biometrics).

Legal Takedown And Host Coordination $82K

[#1] Legal takedown, counsel and platform liaison fees, expedited takedown processing or negotiated settlement with hosting provider.

Legal Rights Settlement $52K

[#9] One-time settlement/license fees with likeness/rights holders to smooth removal and avoid countersuits.

Pr Cover One Time $42K

[#13] Initial public-relations / cover-story creation and one-time messaging spend to explain removals to public.

Archives Coordination One Time $22K

[#22] One-time coordination and engineering work to purge snapshots from archives (Wayback, caches) and specialized takedown formats.

Training Sop Initial $15K

[#23] Initial SOP creation, training and tabletop exercise costs for digital ops, legal, and security personnel.

🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.6M/yr

Staff Wages $300K/yr

[#3] Dedicated Digital Containment Team salaries and benefits (1 senior analyst + 2 operators; fully loaded ~ $80k–$120k each).

Research And Monitoring $280K/yr

[#2, #7, #8] Automated internet monitoring and mirror-detection tooling/cloud instances; ongoing research cycle costs (salaries/compute) and forensic archival throughput/storage for continued experiments.

Logistics And Transport $250K/yr

[#11] Annual field ops budget for server seizures, cross-jurisdiction travel and covert takedowns (multiple operations budgeted annually).

Amnestic Operations $150K/yr

[#10] Recurring targeted amnestic campaigns budget (smaller-scale or repeat campaigns per year).

Physical Security $130K/yr

[#17] On-site guards, badge control, access system maintenance and visitor vetting for the containment facility.

Darkweb Bounty Program $105K/yr

[#12] Dark-web/torrent takedown monitoring and bounty payments to incentivize takedowns or insider disclosures.

Insurance Premiums $100K/yr

[#24] Annual insurance premiums and risk-transfer related to containment, reputational and cyber litigation.

Cover Story And Legal $88K/yr

[#15, #13, #22] Continuous legal retainer for rapid DMCA and cross-jurisdictional action, ongoing PR/messaging, and archive liaison retainer.

Emergency Cloud Sla $55K/yr

[#16] Contracts/SLA costs with cloud/CDN providers for kill-switch/bandwidth throttling and emergency cloud bursts.

Contingency Topup $50K/yr

[#20] Annual top-up contribution to the contingency/reserve for scaling storage/bandwidth risk.

Software Maintenance $30K/yr

[#14] Ongoing maintenance for automated takedown tooling, ML models, and fingerprinting systems.

Forensic Advertising Influencer $28K/yr

[#21] Forensic advertising and influencer outreach to dissuade sharing and assist removal efforts.

Archival Review And Migration $18K/yr

[#25] Annual archival migration, scheduled review audits, and retention costs.

Personnel Welfare $15K/yr

[#18] Mental-health care, debriefing, and psychiatric follow-up for staff exposed to the video.

Facilities Maintenance $10K/yr

[#4, #5] Annual maintenance for air-gapped lab/vault and on-prem storage (routine upkeep, power, environmental controls).

Training Recurring $8K/yr

[#23] Periodic refresher training and tabletop exercises for personnel.

Supplies And Consumables $6K/yr

[#19] Secure destruction/disposal of seized physical media (shredding, degaussing, transport) and consumables.

⚡ Cost Scenarios

📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.6M/yr

83.0% probability / year

Normal year: continuous monitoring, legal retainer, regular research and maintenance with no major reupload wave or large-scale incidents.

no major mirror wave routine takedowns handle incidents no large legal exposures

🚨 Minor Incident $2.0M/yr

12.0% probability / year +$425K vs baseline

Localized mirror/reupload wave requiring one significant field operation, targeted amnestic campaign, and extra emergency cloud throttle usage.

localized mirror proliferation host non-cooperation P2P seeding spike

🚨 Major Breach $3.6M/yr

2.0% probability / year +$2.0M vs baseline

Widespread uncontrolled replays and derivative proliferation that force large-scale storage/bandwidth response and drawdown of contingency reserve.

mass reuploads across platforms rapid derivative growth (storage blowout) CDN refusal or major platform outage

🚨 Legal Exposure $2.4M/yr

3.0% probability / year +$750K vs baseline

Significant litigation or public exposure event requiring large settlements, extended legal defense, and heavy PR/cover operations.

host/platform counter-litigation class-action or estate lawsuit major negative press cycle

👥 Personnel 3 total

Role	Count	Notes
Senior Analyst / Digital Lead	1	[#3] Lead analyst responsible for monitoring strategy, takedown coordination, and escalation.
Digital Operations / Operators	2	[#3] Two operators to run crawlers, file takedowns, manage mirror detection and routine monitoring.

📋 Confidence Notes

Estimates are drawn from analyst-provided ranges and reflect mid-point budgeting; confidence is medium because operational costs (field ops, legal settlements, and especially storage/bandwidth blowouts) have large tails and depend on adversary/platform behavior.

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