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FBI Never Saw CrowdStrike Unredacted or Final Report on Alleged Russian Hacking Because None was Produced

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Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-11-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Seth Rich is Russian?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-20 01:39|| 2019-11-20 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't understand cybersecurity very well however there were some other cybersecurity companies that reached the same general conclusion as crowdstrike, that is that the hacking of the DNC was the work of a Russian operation.

Other conclusions of the crowdstrike company, e.g., that a Russian operation had hacked a Ukraine artillery unit, were, however, contested by other cybersecurity companies. Ukraine itself rejected crowdstrike's conclusion regarding the artillery unit.

Posted by lord garth 2019-11-20 06:24|| 2019-11-20 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 More telling was earlier questioning by House Intelligence Committee member, Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), who had been a CIA officer for a decade.On March 20, 2017 while he was still FBI director, Comey evidenced some considerable discomfort as he tried to explain to the committee why the FBI did not insist on getting physical access to the DNC computers and do its own forensics:

Few people need permission to walk their own dog. No need to "insist" on anything. They very likely already had the content.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-11-20 06:35|| 2019-11-20 06:35|| Front Page Top

#4 OTOH Wikileaks say they got their data from a leaker and the timings look like someone with physical access to the server

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-11-20 08:40|| 2019-11-20 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 The transfer speed is a giveaway. No way on earth that a dinky operation like the DNC would have paid for the kind of content delivery speeds that a YouTube or an ecommerce site customer of say Akamai would be paying.

IOW the probability that the download made a round-trip to Eastern Europe is about zero.

Almost certainly the data was copied to a USB Flash drive, which destroys the CrowdStrike hypothesis and points to an inside job. Several ex-NSA experts arrived at this conclusion.

This Russia-hacked-the-DNC notion is yet another absurd act in The Shitshow.

Posted by Lex 2019-11-20 12:02|| 2019-11-20 12:02|| Front Page Top

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