SCP-7880
Unknown
~
medium confidence
SCP-7880
Expected annual
$3.2M
One-time setup
$1.6M
Annual recurring
$3.1M
Personnel
13
Initial containment requires modest capital outlay (~$1.6M) for archival infrastructure, audits and a contingency reserve; the dominant ongoing costs are personnel, codebase hardening, amnestic operations and contingency reserves (~$3.1M/yr).
One-Time Capital Costs
Total: $1.6M
Annual Recurring Costs
Total: $3.1M/yr
Cost Scenarios
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Baseline
(baseline)
$3.1M/yr
Normal year with routine monitoring, updates, and no major propagation events.
routine_detection_and_containment
scheduled_maintenance
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Minor Incident
$3.4M/yr
Localized infection of Foundation documents or a small public repository requiring targeted remediation and amnestic administrations.
single-site_infection
small_scale_document_remediation
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Major Breach
$3.9M/yr
Widespread propagation to multiple public repositories and significant Foundation documentation corruption requiring large-scale takedowns and restoration.
public_repo_spread
enterprise_document_compromise
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Catastrophic Outbreak
$6.6M/yr
Mass outbreak into public OSS ecosystems and Foundation infrastructure requiring emergency contingency fund drawdown, mass restorations, litigation and years of remediation.
widespread_open_source_infection
multi-site_infrastructure_compromise
Personnel
13 total
| Role | Count | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Containment Lead / Senior Researcher | 1 | [#7] Senior researcher designated containment lead; included in research staffing costs. |
| Research Scientist | 3 | [#7] Emacs/Lisp specialists and malware analysts; part of researcher salary pool. |
| Engineer / Maintenance (Sysadmin & Security Engineer) | 3 | [#8] Sysadmins and security engineers to maintain servers, SIEM and incident response. |
| Community Monitoring Analyst | 4 | [#9] Analysts/agents monitoring GitHub/GitLab/forums and processing takedowns. |
| HUMINT / Embedded Agent | 2 | [#12] Covert or embedded accounts/agents in OSS communities; staffing costs included in personnel. |
Confidence Notes
Estimates derive from analyst-provided ranges and the SCP description; many costs (amnestics, legal, contingency) are scenario-dependent and highly variable, so uncertainty is moderate.