Posted on 07/14/2018 2:40:11 PM PDT by Libloather
why didn’t the fbi get search warrants if the”election’was being endagered?
VIPS showed the data rate to be about 181 Mbps, which is doable using an OC-12 line (very expensive). Their calculations is solid using timestamps and file size. VIPS also describes transit latency that imposes a session limit to about 80 Mbps, and that is true. So, even with an OC-12 connection equivalent from DC to Chicago, the data rate limit wouldn’t be enough on a single file transfer session.
But I believe there’s a flaw in VIPS theory. Peer-to-peer systems could blast through the session limit because they employ multi-session file transfers. While P2P systems aren’t built for a single computer to single computer (they’re built for multi-computer to single computer), it would be possible to modify open source P2P code so that uses TCP ports instead of IP addresses. That could allow multi-thread processes on a single system to emulate more than one source computer.
Also, the indictment indicates that many computers at the DNC were infected with the malware “X-agent” that was apparently the process that ex-filtrated the data. This could also bypass the single session data rate limit.
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