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For all those who keep spouting this Russia leaked it nonsense, former NSA technical director William Binney along with some others did the technical anaylsis w

For all those who keep spouting this Russia leaked it nonsense, former NSA technical director William Binney along with some others did the technical anaylsis which showed the leaker used a usb drive to copy the emails. I also specifically remember doing a deep dive on the limited Crowdtrike report... which based their entire argument around a list of IPs in the Netherlands they somehow labelled as "known Russian IPs", but never provided any evidence for or methodology for. The servers were never provided to the FBI, and Crowdtrike is extremely questionable as an organization for other reasons. Furthermore, the accusation that Wikileaks was selectively publishing doesn't stand up to scrutiny, with it being fairly obvious in context they were trying to get leaked docs about Trump too. Even then, who was controlling the Wikileaks twitter then? I doubt it was Assange himself. I started reading Assange when he was a cryptophreaker in the 90s, and it's been a wild ride to watch inteligence agency character assassinations become so effective at forcing a narrative that supposedly educated people around HN have gobbled up. I'm proud to see the pushback that does exist though. All that said, Assange's childhood in what is likely to have been an intelligence front cult, has always made me just a bit wary of him, but to me it always felt more like a person who barely escaped and was transformed by it into what he became. (again, a lot of this context people don't know because they never read his stuff pre-wikileaks)

nova22033 4y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/2017/08/16/stories-claiming-dnc-hack-was-inside-job-rely-heavily-stupid-conversion-error-no-forensic-expert-would-make/ https://www.techdirt.com/2017/08/16/stories-claiming-dnc-hac... William Binney's "analysis" is a little suspect. The servers were never provided to the FBI, and Crowdtrike is extremely questionable as an organization for other reasons. So, to do proper forensic analysis, I need to physically take the servers? I can't log in and take all the data? ALso, please enlighten us...Why is crowdstrike "suspect?
- arminiusreturns 4y ago
  No, his analysis is not. He talked about how they even directly tested from servers in a few of the potential countries for real world data transfer speeds and they couldnt reproduce the rate. He also explains how it fits a FAT32 filesystem very well. VIPS has a long history of being corrwct and way ahead of the curve, hence the frequent character assassinations. As someone who has had formal forensic training, your statement about physical servers made me laugh! Have you never heard of chain of custody? Even if someone provided image files the break in chain of custody by a third party would make the evidence useless. As for Crowdstrike, even before 2016 they had a reputation in the industry. When it came to the Russiagate stuff, I think the following article is a good start. https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-unredacted-or-final-report-on-alleged-russian-hacking-because-none-was-produced/ https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstr...
- stefantalpalaru 4y ago
  > So, to do proper forensic analysis, I need to physically take the servers? Obviously. > I can't log in and take all the data? The DNC did not allow the FBI to do that either. > Why is crowdstrike "suspect? Because Dmitri Alperovitch - Crowdstrike's Russia-born co-founder and former CTO - is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Because Shawn Henry - Crowdstrike CEO - admitted in a December 2017 congressional testimony that they had found no proof that data had been exfiltrated from those DNC servers they had exclusive forensic access to.

nova22033 4y ago

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/08/16/stories-claiming-dnc-hack-was-inside-job-rely-heavily-stupid-conversion-error-no-forensic-expert-would-make/ https://www.techdirt.com/2017/08/16/stories-claiming-dnc-hac... William Binney's "analysis" is a little suspect. The servers were never provided to the FBI, and Crowdtrike is extremely questionable as an organization for other reasons. So, to do proper forensic analysis, I need to physically take the servers? I can't log in and take all the data? ALso, please enlighten us...Why is crowdstrike "suspect?

arminiusreturns 4y ago
No, his analysis is not. He talked about how they even directly tested from servers in a few of the potential countries for real world data transfer speeds and they couldnt reproduce the rate. He also explains how it fits a FAT32 filesystem very well. VIPS has a long history of being corrwct and way ahead of the curve, hence the frequent character assassinations. As someone who has had formal forensic training, your statement about physical servers made me laugh! Have you never heard of chain of custody? Even if someone provided image files the break in chain of custody by a third party would make the evidence useless. As for Crowdstrike, even before 2016 they had a reputation in the industry. When it came to the Russiagate stuff, I think the following article is a good start. https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstrike-unredacted-or-final-report-on-alleged-russian-hacking-because-none-was-produced/ https://consortiumnews.com/2019/06/17/fbi-never-saw-crowdstr...
stefantalpalaru 4y ago
> So, to do proper forensic analysis, I need to physically take the servers? Obviously. > I can't log in and take all the data? The DNC did not allow the FBI to do that either. > Why is crowdstrike "suspect? Because Dmitri Alperovitch - Crowdstrike's Russia-born co-founder and former CTO - is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Because Shawn Henry - Crowdstrike CEO - admitted in a December 2017 congressional testimony that they had found no proof that data had been exfiltrated from those DNC servers they had exclusive forensic access to.