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> CrowdStrike, the firm whose conclusions informed much of the intelligence community's assessment I don't think this is true at all. I do recall CS releasing
by willstrafach 9y ago
> CrowdStrike, the firm whose conclusions informed much of the intelligence community's assessment
I don't think this is true at all. I do recall CS releasing their own report in early summer, but my understanding is the January IC assessment was a completely separate document which did not cite the CS report in any way.
(If I am missing something here, happy to be corrected, this aspect just stuck out to me)
- monocasa 9y agoThe IC assessment was just regurgitating CS's report. The IC just took CS at their word since they would have contracted out to someone like CS to begin with. The FBI, for instance, wasn't allowed to look at any of the evidence directly. AFAIK, no government entities have looked at the raw data. Edit: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/11/donald-trump/did-john-podesta-deny-cia-and-fbi-access-dnc-serve/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/... > In his testimony in January on the cyber attacks, then-director of the FBI James Comey said the agency never got access to the machines themselves, but obtained access to the forensics from a review of the system performed by CrowdStrike, a third-party cybersecurity firm.
- willstrafach 9y agoTo clarify, this is the report I am referring to, and it does not appear to mention CrowdStrike at all: https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
- monocasa 9y agoSure, they didn't cite CrowdStrike, but there's no extra information in that report other than what came from CrowdStrike's report.
- willstrafach 9y agoThere definitely appears to be additional information in the IC assessment though.
- monocasa 9y agoLike what?
- willstrafach 9y agoThey're different reports. I don't quite understand what you are saying. > The IC assessment was just regurgitating CS's report. The IC just took CS at their word since they would have contracted out to someone like CS to begin with. The IC assessment appears to be very different. It describes information sourcing without any reference to an analysis of DNC servers (let alone CrowdStrike). There does not appear to be any indication that information from CrowdStrike's analysis or any information from DNC servers at all was used to generate the IC assessment.