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originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: toysforadults
You get the impression from his posts over the years that he is a spook. One that is well-read and educated.
No - Crowdstrike did the "analysis" of the server however no law enforcement agency performed an analysis
The "hack" is based entirely on crowdstrikes result and as someone else pointed out crowdstrike already had to retract its findings.
and the report crowdstrike released was analyzed and it was discovered download speeds are consistent with a direct transfer of files (pc to USB) and NOT internet download speeds. Given the fact it would have been an international connection the speeds would have been even lower.
originally posted by: AndyFromMichigan
originally posted by: toysforadults
a reply to: Xcathdra
So how can Meuller even file an indictment without forensic evidence?
Those disk drives need to hashed and DD'd and then there is a step by step process for creating a court proceeding when it comes to technology
This case is going nowhere
Remember the first batch of Russian indictments, when one of the defendants showed up in court to plead "Not Guilty"?
originally posted by: Xcathdra
a reply to: toysforadults
They said it was Russia by the malware that was used. Apparently Russian hackers are so incompetent that they can hack the DNC but not hide their ip addresses or software used.
Also remember their were claims made leading up to the elections several states had their voter rolls info accessed by "Russians". In those cases the ip was actually traced back to DHS computers and not russian.
There is no allegation in the indictment that any American was a knowing participant in the alleged unlawful activity or knew they were communicating with Russian intelligence officers. There is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the vote count or changed the outcome of the 2016 election.
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: network dude
Your handle is literally "network dude" so I assume you've got access to a network. Let's assume gigabit ethernet with normal-low utilization and two run-of-the-mill Windows desktops with 5400 rpm drives. That seems like a safe bet for approximating the DCCC office's network.
Fire up robocopy, xcopy or whatever you favor and do a large batch copy. I'll bet you'll get a sustained transfer rate of about 20-25 MB/s.
And like I said earlier, I get ~20 MB/s regularly between VPSes in Houston, TX and Windsor, Ontario (at different ISPs).
The idea that the only thing that could explain an apparent 22 MB/s transfer speed, assuming the gap in the mod times results from a batch file copy, is copying to a thumb drive, is rather silly. And even if the files were at some point copied to a thumb drive, that could have been done basically anywhere. They could have been put on a thumb drive by the hackers and handed off to a different department for them to deploy.
And what would explain the multiple independent lines of publicly available evidence for the spearphishing campaign? I've posted stuff from Dell SecureWorks, FireEye, etc with the data from passive DNS monitoring, the timestamped (link tracking not allowed) shortened URL data pulled from their API, etc that all strongly and independently evidence the spearphishing campaign. We also know 100% that Podesta's Gmail account was phished. We also know that the FBI had detected an attack against the DNC and tried (somewhat half-heartedly imo) to get them to move on it. I haven't seen any reporting about it but I assume they stumbled on it from something like passive DNS monitoring.
And that's without getting into the logs that the FBI would have obtained from involved ISPs, anything coming directly from the DNC/DCCC networks and whatever scary # the NSA is snooping with. I'm just talking about the publicly available information.
It's ridiculous to believe that the DNC/DCCC wasn't hacked. It's literally known what shortened URL Podesta clicked on, when it was created, when he received the email, when he clicked on the link, what the link translated to, where that host was located and who else was targeted in the same campaign.
It's ridiculous to assert that there was no hacking. So the thumb drive meme is pretty lame on its face. Attribution is something else altogether but even then, publicly available analysis of the targets, the infrastructure and the MO all point to the Russians.
It was pretty conclusive that either the Russians did it or somebody trying hard to look like the Russians and going after targets that would most fit the Kremlin's interests.