Pakistan Hacked the DNC Server and Maybe Hillary’s Illegal Server Too

Source: https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/05/21/pakistan-hacked-the-dnc-server/
Published: May 21, 2018
Author: Rush
Post Date: 2018-07-14 14:35:52 by Justified
Views: 1692

There has yet to be — do not doubt me — there has yet to be any evidence furnished that the Russians did the hacking. Now, in the course of staying up to speed on this, I read I can’t tell you how much about it, so much that I can’t remember where I read some things. But one of the most telling pieces of information, CrowdStrike was the third-party outfit that the Democrats hired to forensically examine their server. And CrowdStrike is who said that it looked to them like Russia or Guccifer 2.0, some people pretending to be the Russians maybe did it.

And in this story — and it might have been in The Intercept, can’t say for sure, but it was in more than one, more than one story I read reported that the transfer speed of the data was such-and-such. If you’re gonna go in and hack data, what are you gonna do? You’re gonna find a way in to the host computer, and then you’re gonna find a way to transfer that data back to your server. And if you’re hacking, you’re going in via the internet, so your speeds, your transfer speeds are gonna be totally dependent on your router equipment and what kind of connection the Democrat National Committee server has.

Was it fiber? Was it gigabit Ethernet? Was it DLS? We don’t know. But regardless, the maximum transfer speeds can be easily calculated. Well, the transfer speeds that were reported by CrowdStrike are impossible over the internet. If you spend time Googling this and delving into this, you will stumble across this fact. The speed at which the data that was stolen from the server was transferred are speeds that are impossible over the internet.

There are not super-secret, literally wicked fast networks that super spies have that nobody else has that have speeds that approach what these are reported to be. The speeds that were reported, the speeds that CrowdStrike reported from data transfer is identical to the speed if you’re writing something to a DVD or a thumb drive over USB. You can copy massive amounts of data very fast over USB to either a DVD or a thumb drive. You can transfer a couple terabytes in not very long. But over the internet, it would take impossibly longer.

But the forensic data is there. The transfer speed data is there. And it simply is not possible over the internet. So what does this mean? It means it had to be an inside job, it had to be somebody with access to the hardware, to the server, to computers, it had to be somebody who could plug in a thumb drive or an optical drive with DVD or what have you, a CD, and write the data that way, because if it’s over the internet, the amount of data we’re talking about here — and we still don’t know specifically what was even hacked. They at first tried to tell us it was the Podesta emails. But they were not part of this hack.

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#1: Tooconservative    To: Justified (#0)

Yeah, we've heard this argument before about thumb drives and network transfer speeds.

I'm not entirely convinced. This is mere argument and deduction, not evidence.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-07-14 14:48:24   Reply   Private Reply


#2: Pinguinite    To: Tooconservative (#1)

I'm not entirely convinced. This is mere argument and deduction, not evidence.

It is indeed evidence, assuming the speed measure is true. But it may not constitute "proof" of an inside job. If the speeds were indeed far higher than is possible via their net connection then it's "evidence in support" it was done to a thumb drive.

But it's not proof, in than a hacker may well have first copied the data to an alternate location on the same internal lan network which would show the fast speed, and after that downloaded from that location at a slower speed over the net. The possible motive for that would be to lower exposure time that shows access to the original data which may have required a more promiscuous hacking presence.

That's a hypothetical scenario for which a hack over the net could fit the evidence. Of course all we have are claims of the high xfer speed, but nothing to support that claim.

Pinguinite posted on 2018-07-14 15:12:03   Reply   Private Reply


#3: Tooconservative    To: Pinguinite (#2)

It is indeed evidence, assuming the speed measure is true. But it may not constitute "proof" of an inside job. If the speeds were indeed far higher than is possible via their net connection then it's "evidence in support" it was done to a thumb drive.

Fiber optic can go as fast or faster than USB 2.0.

Are we talking about a USB 2.0 thumb drive? Or a USB 3.0? Or a USB 3.1? Or Thunderbolt 2.0 or 3.0? I have, for instance, a 2TB Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps interface) 2.5 inch SSD drive, fits in a shirt pocket. It is implemented as a RAID 0 device, meaning it can almost double the transfer speeds of an ordinary drive. I just timed a 57GB data transfer to it from my system SSD drive yesterday and it can write over 814MB/second (57GB in 70 seconds).

So there are a lot of speed variations with USB/Thunderbolt. Too many to rely on in such a vague article. That's before we get to the networking and the ways you can cheat to get higher transfer speeds.

We simply don't have enough info.

Tooconservative posted on 2018-07-14 15:28:01   Reply   Private Reply


#4: sneakypete    To: Justified (#0)

: Pakistan Hacked the DNC Server and Maybe Hillary’s Illegal Server Too

Is "hacked" the new word for "paid a subscription fee?"

sneakypete posted on 2018-07-14 16:30:58   Reply   Private Reply


#5: Pinguinite    To: Tooconservative (#3)

I agree we don't have enough information. The event occurred 2 years ago which should be taken into consideration, tech evolution occurring as fast as it does. And the issue is not about the speed of personal devices, but the speed of the internet. Was it possible, 2 years ago, given the available internet bandwidth the system was on, for the data xfer to have taken place over that internet connection.

That's the only question. Agreed, we only have sparse hearsay on the issue.

Pinguinite posted on 2018-07-14 17:18:41   Reply   Private Reply