Well when she says it, yes it sounds like victory. Unless the routers and logs have been tampered with.
Statement from County Attorney Allister Adel
County Attorney Allister Adel (Maricopa)
That would be a huge “oh what a tangled web we weave” moment.
Think of the router as a postal worker who delivers your mail and picks up the mail you wish to send out.
The postal worker gets the mail they deliver to you from another worker who keeps records of the items, where they came from and where they were delivered. The one who delivers the items to you and takes your outgoing mail also keeps records...these are the Maricopa Router logs.
These postal workers all keep logs and the various workers who handle your mail lead all the way back to the source of each letter and the destination of each.
So if the records are tampered with at any point the logs will not match...in a very slight way it is akin to the blockchain idea.
I’m not saying that inside the routers is a copy of all the data that is sent or received...that would be a HUGE amount of data... it’s the address of sender and receiver, the time of data delivery/dispatch and little else... only the intelligence community captures both the routing data and the actual data from tier-1 backbone switches/routers... what they do is a 4th amendment violation...they claim it’s legal as they don’t actually look at the data unless a court authorizes it...uh huh
If it was as simple as deleting or altering router data that would have been done as a matter of course and no record would exist...
This is the reason why the routers have been kept from the auditors...and consider that the auditors cannot alter the data either....at least not without leaving evidence.
It’s not like you can just do a Hillary and BleachBit the router data...