Mueller Indicts 12 For Russian Hacking

You could tell ol' Rod wasn't comfortable with this one. He knows it smells and he has to be the public face. It's see-through and obvious. A lot of weasel words in his release.

Perfect timing for the Deep State drive to sabotage the talks.

a reply to: Thejoncrichton

There wasn't anything in the emails though. That's the biggest laugh of all. Tons of boring emails that the original recipients were probably put to sleepy by.
You need to go back and read them.

a reply to: Lumenari

That on is in the mudpit.

Wtf. Two threads to post in now?

Trump needs to cancel his meeting with Putin and come home and increase sanction against them. NOW

a reply to: Lumenari

For those of us that understand transfer speeds, can you point out how the Russian hackers transferred the contents of a thumb drive to the Kremlin?

Just wondering, because math is important in the real world...

It's a complete joke that 22MB/s is unattainable over the Internet. I do 20MB/s+ between VPSes in Houston, TX and Windsor, Ontario on a regular basis.

More importantly, the Forensicator analysis is filled with GIANT holes. First and foremost, even if the gap times are the result of a bulk copy operation (rather than delays between selecting/copying), there's nothing to say exactly where they copying was done.

The files in question, despite what a lot of people mistakenly assume, were from the DCCC. The transfer could have been between two computers at the DCCC. It could have been between a DCCC computer and a C&C server in the US. It could have been between two computers back in Russia.

I actually do bulk file copies across a gigabit LAN fairly regularly on my work network and speeds in the low 20-30 MB/s range are typical.

That's odd.

In this report, we analyze the time zone offset that was likely in force when Guccifer 2’s first five (5) Word documents were written. We also look at the time of day pattern of the “last modified” times for the 25/so documents that Guccifer 2 modified and then uploaded to his blog site.

Finally, we look at one particular Word document that Guccifer 2 uploaded, which had “track changes” enabled. From the tracking metadata we deduce the time zone offset in effect when Guccifer 2 made that change — we reach a surprising conclusion: The document was likely saved by Guccifer 2 on the West Coast, US.

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Summary:

Using a technique recently disclosed by another researcher (David Blake), we were able to establish GMT time zone offsets for Guccifer 2’s first five (5) Word documents. Four of those documents (1.doc, 2.doc, 3.doc, and 5.doc) were created with GMT+3 time zone settings in effect. (During the summer of 2016, GMT+3 would have applied to Central Europe, the Middle East, and Western Russia.) One document, 4.doc, was created with GMT+4 time zone settings in force.

We deduce that 4.doc‘s GMT+4 time setting indicates that Russian time zone settings were in force when that document was saved. This conclusion derives from the possible use of an outdated cracked Windows XP OS which did not receive updates to its time zone tables. Hypothetically, this unpatched OS was not updated to reflect the fact that Moscow/Russia dropped Daylight Saving Time for Western Russia in 2014. This conclusion also depends upon the user not adjusting their time zone offset manually for over three months after the time zone should have been corrected.

Given that the user did not manually disable the DST time adjustment, we suggest that 4.doc may have been created on a VM that was purpose-built to “telegraph” the use of Russian time zone settings.

We construct a histogram of the time of day that Guccifer 2 last modified the 25/so documents that he changed mainly for the purposes of manipulating their metadata (such as “last saved by” user, company name, etc). This histogram supports the conclusion that Guccifer 2 operated out of a region with a GMT+3 time zone offset in force.

We analyze the timestamp on an internal “track changes” entry created by Guccifer 2 when he modified a document that was published in his second batch of documents that were uploaded to his WordPress site. We correlate this timestamp to the document’s “modified” (“last saved”) time recorded in the document’s metadata. Based on this analysis, we reach the surprising conclusion that this document was created on a system which had Pacific Daylight Saving Time (PDT) settings in force, when the change was made.

The PDT finding draws into question the premise that Guccifer 2 was operating out of Russia, or any other region that would have had GMT+3 time zone offsets in force. Essentially, the Pacific Time Zone finding invalidates the GMT+3 time zone findings previously described.

It has since been proved through meta-data that the files Guccifer 2.0 uploaded “NGP-VAN” were copied locally not hacked, Disobedient Media reported.

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“Look, about the server in Chappaqua, in New York state,” he said. “That server was scanned well before me. It was scanned 2012, from IP numbers in Serbia, Belgrade, it was scanned again in 2013 from IPs in Ukraine and Russia.

The point is, somebody had mirrored, had copied, mirrored the whole server of Hillary Clinton, the question is how many countries. One, two or three? At one point, it was the whole server. I just think, I'm sure some people, I can say some people, I'm sure some people have the server contents.”

Corrupt Comey's take:

FBI Director James Comey denies that Guccifer ever hacked Clinton’s server despite outdated software and that the server was open to RDP and VNC connections which wouldn’t have even required any actual hacking, according to the Register.

“He did not. He admitted that was a lie,” Comey said. “We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.”

Remember, we had to take COMEY'S WORD.
(Guccifer stated otherwise)

Hillary Clinton's Missing Emails Were Offered To JOURNALISTS & Darknet For $500K; Given To FBI Covered Up

Reactive damage control:

On June 12 last year, Julian Assange announced that WikiLeaks had and would publish documents pertinent to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

On June 14, CrowdStrike, a cyber-security firm hired by the DNC, announced, without providing evidence, that it had found malware on DNC servers and had evidence that Russians were responsible for planting it.

On June 15, Guccifer 2.0 first appeared, took responsibility for the “hack” reported on June 14 and claimed to be a WikiLeaks source. It then posted the adulterated documents just described.

On July 5, Guccifer again claimed he had remotely hacked DNC servers, and the operation was instantly described as another intrusion attributable to Russia. Virtually no media questioned this account.

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a reply to: Middleoftheroad

Wasted? Wow. What do you think should have haopened? Just let it go cuz oh well?

a reply to: Sillyolme

Yea right bud

originally posted by: Sillyolme
Trump needs to cancel his meeting with Putin and come home and increase sanction against them. NOW

And you tell people to go back to the real world...

I wonder where do you live.

The Fantastic World Of Silly?

May I join? Seems fun.

a reply to: The GUT

Please. How many claims of 'I can read people' have been posted in the last three days or so?

I'm sure you have no idea what Rosenstein is thinking or feeling. I doubt he would come out and announce a lie.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
Trump needs to cancel his meeting with Putin and come home and increase sanction against them. NOW

you would advocate this for all nations who spy on us?
and trump was made out to be the crazy isolationist....

Stone must be shatting his pants. His turn next in the barrel.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
Trump needs to cancel his meeting with Putin and come home and increase sanction against them. NOW

That run/hide, throw stuff tactic isn't going to work.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: Middleoftheroad

Wasted? Wow. What do you think should have haopened? Just let it go cuz oh well?

You said that about the Strzok investigation....,,,..

Just a waste of time and money, right?

BiasedOlMe

a reply to: theantediluvian

Any of those named resonate with you?

originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: Lumenari

For those of us that understand transfer speeds, can you point out how the Russian hackers transferred the contents of a thumb drive to the Kremlin?

Just wondering, because math is important in the real world...

It's a complete joke that 22mb/s is unattainable over the Internet. I do 20mb/s+ between VPSes in Houston, TX and Windsor, Ontario on a regular basis.

22mb/s is 22 megabits per second.

The Forensicator wrote that if 1.98 GB of data had been copied at a rate of 22.6 MB/s

The capitalized MB, means megabytes. There is a huge difference between megabits & bytes during transfer speed. For example your 22mb/s is roughly, just under 2 megabytes per second. This was transferred at 1000x's that speed.

a reply to: The GUT

PS I'm sure his advisors are telling him to cancel that meeting.

And he knew this before he left and still called it a witch hunt. Unbelievable.

How many witches have we netted now?

a reply to: crtrvt

Apparently they were because they ramped up their activity as soon as he gave them their orders.