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SCP-6227 Decommissioned ~ medium confidence
SCP-6227
Expected annual
$2.1M
One-time setup
$2.3M
Annual recurring
$2.1M
Personnel
7
Initial one-time operations and shutdown activities are estimated at approximately $2.31M, driven by legal actions, employee compensation, forensic analysis, contingency reserves and IT takeover costs. Annual recurring costs are approximately $2.06M/yr, driven by staff wages for cyber-takedown/local office, global monitoring/hosting, legal/PR retainers, and site/security expenses.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $2.3M
Employee Management Ndas Severance $500K
[#15] One-time settlements, severance, NDAs or buyouts for factory staff to prevent leakage.
Contingency Emergency Strike Fund $500K
[#18] One-time reserved rapid-response fund for emergency takedowns and expedited interventions.
Insurance And Legal Risk Reserve $275K
[#22] One-time reserve for potential legal claims, fines or insurance related to seizures.
Legal Initial Push $175K
[#4] One-time initial legal/takedown push, contracts and jurisdictional startup costs.
Forensic Analysis Reverse Engineering $175K
[#12] One-time subcontracted computer forensics and reverse-engineering of apps, servers and hardware.
Webcrawler Development $150K
[#1] Midpoint estimate for development of specialized crawler, ML model training and multilingual capability.
Scientific Research Consultation $138K
[#13] One-time research retainers and lab time for investigations of unknown mechanisms.
Pr Cover Campaign One Time $112K
[#14] One-time PR/cover story creation, press relationships and initial paid search/SEO purchases.
It Takeover Costs $80K
[#23] One-time costs for domain purchases, sinkholing and registrar cooperation to prevent resurrection.
It Infrastructure One Time $60K
[#17] One-time purchase/build of secure case management, air-gapped hardware and encrypted archives.
Field Investigation Initial Milan Operation $52K
[#8] One-time travel, logistics and on-site investigation costs for a 10–15 person operation.
Evidence Seizure Transport $30K
[#11] One-time forensic seizure, transport and chain-of-custody handling.
Local Gov Permitting One Time $28K
[#16] One-time fees, customs and permitting/fine-related expenses during seizure and operations.
Archival Setup $15K
[#21] One-time setup for decommissioned evidence archival, secure off-site backups and cataloging.
Decontamination Equipment Disposal $14K
[#25] One-time secure wiping, deconstruction and legal disposal of compromised hardware.
Language Models Setup $10K
[#7] One-time setup for language models and initial localization tooling.
Facilities $0
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Equipment $0
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Initial Research And Lab Setup $0
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🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $2.1M/yr
Staff Wages $710K/yr
[#3, #24] Cyber-takedown team personnel (3–6 FTEs) and small local office staffing fully burdened.
Research And Monitoring $584K/yr
[#2, #6, #7, #17, #19] Cloud hosting & compute for crawlers/models, app-store monitoring, multilingual monitoring, IT operations and long-term global monitoring/intel.
Cover Story And Legal $345K/yr
[#4, #14, #16] Ongoing legal retainers/filings, PR/SEO/ad buys and local government liaison retainer costs.
Physical Security $140K/yr
[#10] 24/7 contract security/guarding and periodic armed response at the Milan site.
Social Media Platform Services $127K/yr
[#5] Platform access services, mass removal notice handling, appeals and expedited support retainers and averaged campaign spending.
Facilities Maintenance $124K/yr
[#9, #11, #21] Secure site lease/watch in Milan (lease), secure evidence storage, and archival storage/maintenance.
Incident Response Drills $30K/yr
[#20] Annual tabletop exercises and training for takedown/legal/field teams.
Supplies And Consumables $0/yr
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Logistics And Transport $0/yr
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⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $2.1M/yr
88.0% probability / year
Normal year with ongoing monitoring, retainers, and no major resurgence or physical incidents.
no major resurgences routine monitoring only
🚨 Minor Incident $2.3M/yr
10.0% probability / year +$210K vs baseline
Localized resurfacing or a single high-profile campaign requiring emergency takedown, expedited legal filings and a short field surge.
viral social media campaign regional resurgence requiring emergency takedown
🚨 Major Breach $3.3M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$1.2M vs baseline
Significant breach or reactivation requiring large-scale legal action, mass compensation, major forensic redeployment and replenishment of contingency funds.
widespread resurrection major public exposure or large-scale reactivation
👥 Personnel 7 total
Role Count Notes
Cyber-takedown Team / Analysts 4 [#3] Small team (3–6 FTEs) responsible for triage, takedowns and operations; staffed as 4 FTEs for budgeting.
Administrative Staff (local office) 1 [#24] Local administrative assistant included in local office staffing costs.
Local Counsel (contract) 1 [#24] Local legal liaison/counsel in Italy included in local office costs.
Translator / Local Liaison 1 [#24, #7] Translator/liaison role for multilingual monitoring and filings.
📋 Confidence Notes
Estimates are based on analyst-provided ranges for each line item but many line items have wide ranges and context-dependent frequency (e.g., per-campaign vs retainer costs). Midpoint assumptions were used where ranges existed; actual costs could be materially higher or lower depending on operational aggressiveness and how many major takedowns recur.
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