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Credibility Of Cyber Firm That Claimed Russia Hacked The DNC Comes Under Serious Question
ZeroHedge ^ | March 23, 2017 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 03/23/2017 8:47:51 AM PDT by bobsunshine

Before I get to the meat of this post, we need to revisit a little history. The cyber security firm hired to inspect the DNC hack and determine who was responsible is a firm called Crowdstrike. Its conclusion that Russia was responsible was released last year, but several people began to call its analysis into question upon further inspection.

Jeffrey Carr was one of the most prominent cynics, and as he noted in his December post, FBI/DHS Joint Analysis Report: A Fatally Flawed Effort:

(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruptdems; crowdstrike; cybersecurity; dnc; dncemails; dncleaks; hacking; nsa; russiahacking; trumprussia

1 posted on 03/23/2017 8:47:51 AM PDT by bobsunshine
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To: bobsunshine

Faked Hacking?


2 posted on 03/23/2017 8:49:06 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: TYVets

Faked Hacking morphed into the 24/7 spewing of the Russians hacked and stole the election for the evil Trump.

Without Fake Hacking and fake news about Trump, ABCNNBCBS, WSJ, NY/LA Slimes, and Compost would have to close their doors.


3 posted on 03/23/2017 9:12:25 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spydgate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: bobsunshine

Question: Why wouldn’t the DNC allow the FBI to examine the ‘hacked’ server?
Answer: Because the server was never hacked.


4 posted on 03/23/2017 9:13:24 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Depth charge the Deep State)
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To: Flick Lives

Or it contained massive evidence of wrongdoing...


5 posted on 03/23/2017 9:27:29 AM PDT by Stayfree (LIBERALISM & STUPIDITY ARE BOTH INCURABLE MENTAL DISEASES OFTEN FOUND TOGETHER!)
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6 posted on 03/23/2017 9:28:29 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: bobsunshine

Oh, the DNC was hacked all right. It was hacked by the trio of muslim brothers hired by DWS who stole national security data from a bunch of democrats’ computers. And we’re paid $160K to do it. DWS still has at least one of them in her employ. She’s quite puzzled as to why this is a problem.


7 posted on 03/23/2017 9:39:33 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Flick Lives

If the DNC was shown not to have been hacked then someone with access would have had to have released info to Wikileaks and people would have started to check to see who was murdered about that time. Oh dear then the unsolved murder of Seth Rich would no longer be unsolved. That would all look so unseemly so it had to be stopped. FBI cooperated nicely on the lie and the coverup.


8 posted on 03/23/2017 9:45:49 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: bobsunshine
I argued back in approximately July that the crowdstrike blog post was a bunch of unsubstantiated drivel. The author (former Russian hacker) made all kinds of claims of prior knowledge of the hackers without backing them up. Of course the hackers had names like FANCY BEAR and had to be Russian, but he supplied no supporting evidence. I argued with a Freeper back then who insisted it was Russians because he saw the "source code" himself. It was surreal then.

Even more surreal now to listen to Comey live on the radio saying he was using the Crowdstrike ramblings as evidence. Even after a congressman pointed out the inadmissability of hearsay (in another context). The crowdstrike blog post is all the evidence the FBI needs apparantly.

9 posted on 03/23/2017 9:59:05 AM PDT by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: Grampa Dave

Oh My .. what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

And then, we have a player in the Hillary campaign, who clicks on a “phishing” link and exposes all the conversations with Hillary. Brilliant.

With bright bulbs like this .. HOW THE HELL DO THE DEMOCRATS EVER WIN ... THEY CHEAT !!!!!


10 posted on 03/23/2017 10:39:07 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: CyberAnt

The democRats lie and cheat at every level from voting to blatant PR lies for their side posing as news.

Even their DNC giving debate questions to Illiarily before the debate, and they still lost.


11 posted on 03/23/2017 10:44:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spydgate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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Well .. I’m hoping some of the Dems are finally seeing they need to make a change in leadership (getting rid of Obama and Hillary would be a good start) .. somewhat like what the GOP did .. even though there are many elites still hanging on, the GOP is much better off.


12 posted on 03/23/2017 12:25:48 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: bobsunshine

Those wily Russians. They hacked everything and changed my vote from Trump to... Trump... I guess.

And they hacked my brain and made me hate Hillary because... you know... she’s a woman. GRRRRRRR HILLARY, BEING FEMALE AND STUFF!!! RAWRRRRR!!

Finally, to top it all off, they hacked John Podesta’s brain and made him think up the password “p@ssw0rd”. That made it SOOO much easier for them to look at his e-mail.

Russians. First they beat Hitler, then they put the next Hitler in charge of America! DAMN YOU RUSSIANS!!


13 posted on 03/23/2017 12:28:11 PM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: Grampa Dave

The DNC refused to allow the government to investigate. The government relied on the claims of the DNC’s investigator, Crowdstrike Inc.

Crowdstrike’s owner, Alperovitch, claims that Russia hacked the DNC email system. Alperovitch claims malware used to breach the DNC email system was previously used by Russia to attack Ukrainian troops. This forms the basis of his claim that Russia hacked the DNC.

Alperovitch’s claim that Russia used this software to attack Ukrainian troops is partly based on the claims of a Russian blogger. The Russian blogger claims that Ukrainian military units were targeted via malware inserted onto Ukrainian tablet computers, the malware provided to Russia the location of Ukrainian troops, resulting in destruction of Ukrainian howitzers. To support the claim the blogger cites a 2016 International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) report of a sharp reduction of Ukrainian D-30 howitzers between 2013 and 2015.

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One of the IISS researchers who produced the data said that while the think tank had dramatically lowered its estimates of Ukrainian artillery assets and howitzers in 2013, it did so as part of a “reassessment” and reallocation of units to airborne forces.

“No, we have never attributed this reduction to combat losses,” the IISS researcher said, explaining that most of the reallocation occurred prior to the two-year period that CrowdStrike cites in its report.

“The vast majority of the reduction actually occurs ... before Crimea/Donbass,” he added, referring to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html

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The malware has been available for years prior to the DNC breach.

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14 posted on 03/23/2017 12:31:33 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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Alperovitch told the PBS NewsHour: “And when you think about, well, who would be interested in targeting Ukraine artillerymen in eastern Ukraine? Who has interest in hacking the Democratic Party? [The] Russia government comes to mind

http://www.voanews.com/a/crowdstrike-comey-russia-hack-dnc-clinton-trump/3776067.html

Why does Alperovitch think Russia has an interest in hacking the Democrat Party? What are Alperovitch’s biases?


15 posted on 03/23/2017 12:35:34 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: Ray76

Our knowledge of the rats’s crimes and malfeance against us grows each day.


16 posted on 03/23/2017 12:36:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spydgate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: Ray76

Supporting research in this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3532194/posts?q=1&;page=21


17 posted on 03/23/2017 12:39:16 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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More research

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3511472/posts


18 posted on 03/23/2017 12:45:57 PM PDT by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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