Another question: almost one year ago, a group called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity published a report, mentioned in most media, that their studies of the hack, due mainly to download speeds, indicated it was an inside job
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/
Again - Do we believe Mueller??
Should we trust VIPS, knowing it was wrapped up in the Valerie Plame affair boosting Joe Wilson [a Hillary Clinton email-for-favors guy who knew she had a non gov server] and is associated with Code Pink and RevCom?
The head of VIPS is Ray McGovern, was a mouthpiece of congressman John Conyers. Also played a supporting role for Cynthia McKinney and one of her informal “hearings.”
His fellow VIPSter is this guy:
The Declining Terrorist Threat
By Larry C. Johnson
July 10, 2001
Oh boy, was that article poorly timed.
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.