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SCP-7908 Safe ~ medium confidence
SCP-7908
Expected annual
$1.8M
One-time setup
$1.9M
Annual recurring
$1.8M
Personnel
12
Estimated first-year (one-time) containment buildout is approximately $1,850,000 with ongoing annual operations of roughly $1,805,300. Major drivers are staff wages, compute/analysis infrastructure, legal/domain actions, and contingency/reserve funds for escalation.
🏗️ One-Time Capital Costs Total: $1.9M
Escalation Contingency $500K
[#30] Contingency reserve to re-architect containment for higher-security needs (hardware/isolation/buildout).
Equipment $495K
[#2, #8, #9, #15, #16, #23] On-site archival storage hardware, sandbox/isolation hardware, on-prem GPU node, Faraday/isolation kits, honeypot/decoy hosting setup, SIEM/hardware deployment (hardware & installed systems).
Copycat Development $150K
[#1] Development of Foundation web-crawler "COPYCAT" (one-time dev/QA/ops features).
Initial Research And Lab Setup $120K
[#14] Forensic lab equipment and instruments for biological/chemical/memetic screening.
Legal Takedown Campaign Budget $100K
[#5] Initial budget/retainer for multi-jurisdiction takedown campaigns and registrar/host negotiation.
Incident Response Reserve $100K
[#24] Emergency incident response fund (one-time reserve to seed rapid-response actions).
Domain Acquisition Budget $100K
[#27] Budget placeholder for contested domain/hosting acquisition if necessary.
Package Tracking Integration $50K
[#11] One-time integration of tracking/interception tooling and APIs.
Covert Ops Data Acquisition $50K
[#17] Covert ops / payments / field work to obtain payment-processor / host logs.
Legal Liability Contingency Fund $50K
[#19] Initial contingency fund for compensations, escrow, or vendor bribes.
Staff Clearances $48K
[#21] One-time clearance costs for estimated staff (avg clearance fee applied to headcount).
Siem Deployment $40K
[#23] SIEM / centralized secure logging deployment hardware & initial licensing setup (one-time deployment costs).
Archival Storage Hardware $30K
[#2] Encrypted on-site storage hardware (WORM disks, rotation) — hardware element not captured under facilities.
Dns Sinkhole Setup $30K
[#4] One-time DNS sinkholing / ISP negotiation setup costs, legal coordination initial fees.
Pr Cover Setup $20K
[#18] Initial PR/cover-story/front-company setup and fake notices.
Facilities $15K
[#13] Site-803 storage locker outfitting and tamper-evident containment.
Secure Deletion Tooling $12K
[#3] Secure-wipe hardware, licenses, integration for deletion workflows.
Sop Writing $10K
[#22] Initial SOP documentation and playbook authoring.
🔄 Annual Recurring Costs Total: $1.8M/yr
Staff Wages $1.2M/yr
[#6, #7, #12] Salaries for monitoring/web analysts, AI/memetics researchers, field retrieval guards, courier, engineers, and admin staff.
Research And Monitoring $408K/yr
[#10, #9, #1, #28, #16, #3, #26, #23, #8, #20, #14, #22, #4, #2] Threat-intel subscriptions, GPU/cloud compute spend, COPYCAT hosting/ops, long-term suppression/legal monitoring, honeypot ops, secure-deletion training, red-team simulations, SIEM licensing, sandbox maintenance, psychological support program, per-package forensic analysis, recurring training program, DNS sinkhole ops, off-site archival vaulting.
Logistics And Transport $80K/yr
[#11, #12] Package-tracking monitoring ops, per-intercept travel and vehicle/courier operations for retrievals.
Cover Story And Legal $61K/yr
[#18, #19] Ongoing PR / front-company maintenance and recurring legal incident fees/settlements.
Facilities Maintenance $42K/yr
[#13, #29] Site-803 locker climate control and datacenter/energy operational costs.
Supplies And Consumables $2K/yr
[#25] PPE, evidence bags, tamper seals, consumables for package handling.
Staff Vetting $2K/yr
[#21] Annual vetting and counter-intel monitoring per staff.
⚡ Cost Scenarios
📊 Baseline (baseline) $1.8M/yr
85.0% probability / year
Normal year with no major incidents; routine monitoring, takedowns, and analysis only.
routine_monitoring scheduled_analysis periodic_takedowns
🚨 Minor Incident $1.9M/yr
8.0% probability / year +$75K vs baseline
Localized incident such as a contaminated/intercepted package or a single escalated takedown requiring emergency legal action and short-term contractors.
package_contamination emergency_takedown short-term_contractors
🚨 Domain Purchase $2.0M/yr
5.0% probability / year +$150K vs baseline
Host/reseller refuses cooperative takedown; Foundation must purchase domain/host or pay hostage price to remove SCP-7908 instance.
contested_domain host_noncompliance
🚨 Major Breach $2.6M/yr
2.0% probability / year +$800K vs baseline
Significant containment failure or public exposure requiring escalation to high-security containment, emergency seizures, legal class-action settlements, and rapid expansion of analysis staff.
public_exposure cross-jurisdictional_breach escalation_to_high_security
👥 Personnel 12 total
Role Count Notes
Research Scientist 4 [#7] AI/ML researchers, memetics specialists and behavioral psychologists assigned to SCP-7908 research.
Monitoring / Web Analyst 3 [#6] Analysts who review COPYCAT output, triage mentions, and coordinate takedowns (24/7 rotation covered in wages).
Security Officer / MTF Agent 2 [#12] Chain-of-custody guards for package retrieval and locker security.
Courier 1 [#12, #11] Dedicated courier/vehicle operator responsible for physical retrievals and transport to Site-803.
Engineer / Maintenance 1 [#9, #8] Sysadmin/engineer for sandbox, GPU/node maintenance, COPYCAT ops, and SIEM upkeep.
Administrative Staff 1 [#21, #22] Admin/coordinator for legal/PR coordination, scheduling, and SOP/training logistics.
📋 Confidence Notes
Line items are well-detailed with ranges, allowing middle-of-range estimates; uncertainty remains around domain/host resistance, GPU/cloud mix, and incident frequency, so confidence is medium.
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