A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack

The Nation ^ | 8/9/2017 | Patrick Lawrence

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Full article: https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

Is this why Russia news is fading? A progressive magazine printing something like this seems like an earthquake for the Democrats. I pray that the whole truth will out on all of them: HRC, JP, DWS, Awans, JC, etc., etc., etc.!

[rjsimmon]

On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were downloaded from the DNC’s server. The operation took 87 seconds. This yields a transfer rate of 22.7 megabytes per second.

One nit to pick. Transfer rate is in bits per second (bps) vice bytes per second.

[samtheman]

Bkmk

[wastoute]

It is painfully obvious to anyone with an IQ that allows them to tie their shoes that the Uniparty is completely uninterested in pursuing any of this.

[z3n]

Fiber or FIOS? Hell, there are decades old copper services that well exceeded 25mB/s. They talk like 2016 is ancient history too. *head scratch* Even your average high-end residential ISPs which tend to offer asynchronous services will still let you download much faster then that. So I could maybe buy the hypothesis that the speeds were close to USB2.0 but not that it was too fast for readily available internet speeds.

To Romania? Yes, that’s more implausible. Not impossible though.

[Buckeye McFrog]

A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack

But enough about Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[cymbal crash]

[outinyellowdogcountry]

So you doubt the veracity of the forensic experts in the story? I do not know anything about the speed. I thought the case they presented coordinates with what has been reported here and the fact a progressive magazine printed the story at all was interesting.

[M Kehoe]

That darn flash drive got Seth Rich killed.

I’m sure one of the Awan brothers know.

And remember, Podesta said leaked should be killed.

5.56mm

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

He’s probably confusing something. I am not aware of any internet providers that can provide that speed, especially not “decades ago.”

[stylin19a]

Time stamps in the metadata provide further evidence of what happened on July 5. The stamps recording the download indicate that it occurred in the Eastern Daylight Time Zone at approximately 6:45 pm. This confirms that the person entering the DNC system was working somewhere on the East Coast of the United States. In theory the operation could have been conducted from Bangor or Miami or anywhere in between—but not Russia, Romania, or anywhere else outside the EDT zone.

If I leave a thumb drive in a PC in NYC and I access the NYC PC from Chicago and download data to the thumb drive, what will the meta data show as a timestamp ?

[Maelstrom]

...and that is most likely why Seth Rich was killed.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Folden and Edward Loomis say a survey published August 3, 2016, by www.speedtest.net/reports is highly reliable and use it as their thumbnail index. It indicated that the highest average ISP speeds of first-half 2016 were achieved by Xfinity and Cox Communications. These speeds averaged 15.6 megabytes per second and 14.7 megabytes per second, respectively. Peak speeds at higher rates were recorded intermittently but still did not reach the required 22.7 megabytes per second.

Somebody doesn't know what they are talking about. Transmission rates are usually quoted in megaBITS per second, not megabytes. Is there a units error here?

I subscribe to Xfinity "Blast" service and SpeedTest just a moment ago shows I got 118 megabits//sec or 14.75 megabytes/sec.

[dalight]

One nit to pick. Transfer rate is in bits per second (bps) vice bytes per second.

Megabytes per second is correct in this situation. Normally when you buy Internet speed it is calculated in bps or kbps but as speeds have increased it is now being discussed in Mbps. However, you will note that your computer reports speeds in MBytes per second. Thus a 5Mbps connection only yields 625K Bytes per sec. A 22.7 MBps connection would be 180Mbps (megabits) and generally you can't buy more than a 100Mbps Fiberoptics connection unless you are in the NOC.

[z3n]

doubt yes.
Veracity, no, not necessarily.
TBH I skimmed and gleaned. I’m not trying to throw water on this, but just the technical conclusions I saw getting jumped to in various spots were far closer to opinion than they were to facts.
But also, not only did I skim, I did not click the link and read the rest. I’m just saying... it casts a LOT of doubt. But that’s what it seems to do at best. So if you ask if I doubt, then yes, it’s easy to doubt doubt

[Bogey78O]

Speeders typically are optimized to go from a server to a client. You’ll find real world speeds quite different. Not to mention, due to business rates, it’s more than likely they had a 10mb or possibly a 100mb link. Unlikely to have a gigabit link.

[stylin19a]

Neat tool to do all the conversions and calculate outcomes.

http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/downloadcalculator.php

near as I can figure 1,976 megabytes of data is about 2 gb and the 87 seconds speed is nothing I can get from Comcast.

my speed tests done 08/10/2017 11:33 CDT:
Xfinity: 155 Mbps download - too funny !~ ( probably computer to Internet ? not to network ?)
AT&T: 87 Mbps
Ookla: 88 Mbps

[Cboldt]

-- If I leave a thumb drive in a PC in NYC and I access the NYC PC from Chicago and download data to the thumb drive, what will the meta data show as a timestamp ? --

That depends on what software you use to effect the transfer.

[faucetman]

George Webb had this a long time ago.

[iontheball]

The framing of the Russians has Brennan’s smell all over it.