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SCP-5069 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-5069
Expected annual
$1.5M
One-time setup
$125K
Annual recurring
$1.4M
Personnel
12
One-time startup ~125,000 USD for archival storage upgrade, viewing booth, and scanning/preservation equipment; recurring annual costs ~1,430,700 USD driven primarily by personnel (containment lead, field/ recovery team, OSINT analysts), legal/cover operations, field ops and a replenishing incident-response reserve.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $125K
Facilities $77K
[#1, #2] Secure archival storage upgrade (climate control, inert-gas suppression, biometric locker) and construction/installation of a secure supervised viewing booth with one-way observation and sound isolation.
Equipment $48K
[#3, #10, #19] High-resolution film scanner and preservation hardware plus secure air-gapped server/encryption and non-networked playback hardware; one-time evidence-handling kit; initial archival consumables (sleeves, boxes, gloves).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.4M/yr
Staff Wages $765K/yr
[#5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #12] Salaries for containment lead (1 FTE), research staff/lab techs (2 FTE), on-site security guards (2 FTE), field/recovery team salaries (4 agents), OSINT analysts (2 FTE), and part-time medical nurse.
Personnel Overhead $230K/yr
[#21] Fringe benefits, HR, accounting and site overhead allocated at ~30% of direct personnel wages.
Incident Response Reserve $100K/yr
[#18] Replenishing contingency reserve for large-scale recoveries, emergency amnestic campaigns, or legal crises.
Cover Story And Legal $80K/yr
[#15] Legal fees, DMCA/hosting takedowns, public-affairs/cover-story costs and international legal coordination.
Field Operations $80K/yr
[#8] Non-salary operational budget for covert recovery/destruction operations (travel, equipment, per-operation expenses) supplementing field-team salaries.
Amnestic Administrations $50K/yr
[#11] Annual budget for amnestic drugs, medical administration and observation (planning assumption ~10–50 treatments/yr; budget here assumes moderate throughput).
Osint Tooling $40K/yr
[#9] Tooling, paid API access, scraping infrastructure, translation services and related licensing for continuous monitoring of forums/darknet/communities.
Research And Monitoring $35K/yr
[#13, #14, #17, #22, #23] Psychological counseling budget, annual training/protocol refreshers, public-health/epidemiology monitoring, documentation/classification/auditing, and periodic red-team containment reviews.
Covert Influence Fund $25K/yr
[#16] Payments to informants, moderators, honeypots and small rapid-removal incentives in target communities.
Logistics And Transport $20K/yr
[#10] Evidence handling, secure transport, PPE, per-disposal contracts and routine destruction logistics.
Digital Storage And Backups $3K/yr
[#4] Cold air-gapped backups, off-site rotation, media replacement and maintenance for secure digital vaults.
Facilities Maintenance $2K/yr
[#20] Incremental utilities and HVAC/power for climate-controlled archival storage, secure servers, CCTV and viewing booth.
Supplies And Consumables $1K/yr
[#19] Archival consumables replacement (acid-free boxes, desiccants, sleeves, gloves) and small recurring film-preservation items.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.4M/yr
75.0% probability / year
Normal year with no large-scale leaks; routine monitoring, occasional recoveries and normal staffing/maintenance costs.
no_major_leak routine_recovery_ops standard_legal_activity
🚨 Minor Incident $1.5M/yr
20.0% probability / year +$100K vs baseline
Localized leak or limited online copy circulation requiring a targeted recovery operation, several amnestic administrations, and additional legal takedowns.
localized_online_spread small_recovery_operation 10s_of_amnestics
🚨 Major Breach $2.2M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline
Widespread international distribution, large-scale exposures requiring many amnestic administrations, international legal battles, and multiple large recovery operations.
widespread_international_distribution hundreds_of_exposures major_legal_battles
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Containment Lead / Senior Researcher 1 [#5] Senior researcher authorized to grant access and run tests; 1 FTE included in staff wages.
Research Scientist / Lab Tech 2 [#6] Cataloging, handling, analysis and maintaining viewing logs; 1–2 FTE assumed, here budgeted as 2 FTE.
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#7] On-site guards for access control to media storage and viewing booth; 2 guards budgeted for direct coverage.
Field/Recovery Team Agent 4 [#8] Covert recovery/destruction team; 3–5 agents recommended, here budgeted as 4 agents (salaries included in staff wages).
OSINT / Cyber Analyst 2 [#9] Continuous monitoring of forums/darknet/communities; 1–2 analysts suggested, here budgeted as 2 FTE.
Medical Officer / On-call Nurse 1 [#12] Part-time nurse (0.2–0.5 FTE) for amnestic administration and monitoring; counted as 1 head for rostering though budgeted at part-time.
📋 Confidence Notes
Analyst notes provide detailed line items and ranges allowing a reasonable mid-range estimate, but exposure rates, operational tempo, and international legal variability create significant uncertainty; contingency and incident probabilities are estimated.
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