CrowdStrike and the Impeachment Frenzy

The American Spectator ^ | 10-4-2019 | George Parry

[Sir Napsalot]

No wonder the Dems are nervous: The alleged Russian hacking of the DNC’s computers is proving to be a Hillary campaign and DNC scam that went unchallenged by Messrs. Comey and Mueller.

In his telephone conversation with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump requested Ukraine’s help in getting “to the bottom of” the Russian collusion narrative and the role of CrowdStrike, a private computer security company, in propagating that story. Lost in the volcanic eruption of faux outrage and condemnation aimed at the president by the Democrats and their wholly owned media subsidiary, this reference to CrowdStrike indicates that the Justice Department’s investigation of the counterintelligence operation against candidate and president-elect Trump may be hot on the trail of exposing what could well be a seminal lie that the Democratic National Committee’s computer server was hacked by Russian operatives.

(snip)

In their breathless coverage of the Russian hacking story, the media downplayed the very odd behavior of the DNC, the putative victim. For, when the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI learned of the hacking claim, they asked to examine the server.

But the DNC refused.

Why would the purported victim of a crime refuse to cooperate with law enforcement in solving that crime? Was it hiding something? Was it afraid the server’s contents would discredit the Russia-hacking story?

(more snip)

As set forth in its memorandum, VIPS's investigative findings were nothing short of stunning.

First, VIPS concluded that the DNC data were not hacked by the Russians or anyone else accessing the server over the internet. Instead, the data were downloaded by means of a thumb drive or similar portable storage device physically attached to the DNC server....

[Zathras]

Cloudstrike = Ecomcon

[IndispensableDestiny]

Your analysis did not explain the behavior of DNC, nor FBI investigation, nor SC Mueller entire team.

It wasn't meant to. It shows that the timestamps do not prove that the files were taken with direct access to the computer.

[piasa]

The Democrats acted like there was evidence of the OPM hack on their system. What was it Maxine said about the Democrats having a setup where they know everybody and everything?

Office of Personnel Management data breach - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach

In June 2015, the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that it had been the target of a data breach targeting the records of as many as four million people. The final estimate of the number of stolen records is approximately 21.5 million.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah.

[DarthVader]

Great information to post!!

[SkyPilot]

We have known about the Crowdstrike-DNC-Hillary connection, and the FBI cover up for years.

No one arrested. No one indicted. No one sent to prison.

And no one will be.

[oincobx]

>>>Its a Ukrainian company

No, it is a US company, publicly traded on the Nasdaq. It’s founder, often cited as Ukranian, was born in Moscow, moved to the US as a teenager, and is now a US citizen.

[DouglasKC]

If you are going to copy an entire directory or directories containing files, doing so file by file is not the way. Instead, you would create an archive file (zip, tar, rar) and copy that, removing the original when done. When later expanding the archive, the file creation dates would look like a high speed transfer (22.7 megabytes per second).

I'm not sure how file creation dates are germane. I've always assumed with the DNC was that the sheer volume of data transferred made it unlikely that it was done remotely. Just 10 GB would take at least 14 hours to Xfer (if I'm reading it right). Fourteen hours is a LOT of time for something like that NOT to be noticed. Server slowdown, etc etc. Whereas copying it over a thumbdrive would take about 2 or 3 minutes.

[rocknotsand]

Crowdstrike has an Aura.
FBI = hands off
DOJ ditto
Mueller ditto

Why was Epstein hands off for so long?
Why did Epstein return to simply suicide?
Why did google’s Schmidt put 100million into CS with knowledge of Alperavich involvement?

Connect the redactions... CS is a CIA shop.

[topher]

bmp

[crusher2013]

This is an information war.

If a majority of the population eventually understands what happened, that will translate into a reelection of President Trump and recapture of the house.

Just like when communism collapsed in Russia, no one went to jail for the horrendous crimes but it still was a very good thing.

[100American]

Not true at all...

I have moved considerable amounts of data from one drive to another or from a drive to a cloud drive and did not use .zip or any other software to compress it or otherwise manipulate it. We are talking multiple gigabytes of multi formatted files from pictures documents, all of it

The files all moved successfully from one drive to another and they work flawlessly

I have also use >zip to move a cluster of files from a cloud drive to a system based drive and the expanded the zip back into files

What Binney said was the time for the transfer and the number of files cannot be done over a network link as the data speed needed to so so is not available given the payload and the time to transfer. Only when a flash drive is plugged in as a locally accessible device can that speed as shown in the meta data be achieved, zipped or not

Game over

And a PS.

I have transferred drive contents of multi gigabytes to a cloud drive in their native format and that much data in that little time does not happen, I have been in the computing business for 46 years and I am certified on Unix/Linux and others

[IndispensableDestiny]

What Binney said was the time for the transfer and the number of files cannot be done over a network link as the data speed needed to so so is not available given the payload and the time to transfer. Only when a flash drive is plugged in as a locally accessible device can that speed as shown in the meta data be achieved, zipped or not

I read the VIPS memos. The metadata are file time stamps. Agreed? Expanding a zip archive on the destination host can generate similar time stamps. No matter how long the transfer took. I'm not saying that happened. It could have happened.

I have transferred drive contents of multi gigabytes to a cloud drive in their native format and that much data in that little time does not happen . . .

I have transferred entire UNIX filesystems over T1 lines back when we didn't use silly terms like cloud. Unix tar piped to gzip piped to scp. Took all night. Timestamps didn't show how long it took.

[Garth Tater]

"What Binney said was the time for the transfer and the number of files cannot be done over a network link as the data speed needed to so so is not available given the payload and the time to transfer."

And where did the NSA get the files you're talking about? There is a youtube video out there where Mr. Binney says that the files were downloaded off of the internet after a hacker (Guccifer 2) had posted them there. So... if a hacker had possession of the files before the NSA got them then the timestamps could easily have been set to whatever the hacker wanted them to be. No use even discussing timestamps. Chain of custody and all that. You would think that the former Technical Director of the NSA would know that...

[Garth Tater]

"the sheer volume of data transferred made it unlikely that it was done remotely. Just 10 GB would take at least 14 hours to Xfer (if I'm reading it right). Fourteen hours is a LOT of time for something like that NOT to be noticed. Server slowdown, etc etc."

It could have been done over 14 hours or, for all anyone knows, it could have been done over 14 weeks mixed in a few bytes at a time heading to dozens (or thousands) of destinations.

Guccifer 2 had possession of those files before the NSA got a hold of them. They are worthless as evidence. Who is to say that Guccifer 2 didn't create those files from whole cloth?

[trebb]

Biden is having ‘issues”, Bernie had a heart attack, Fakahontas is doubling down on her warpath, Spartacus is considering hanging up his sword and net....it’s ripe for Hillary to announce...
Wouldn’t it be sweet to actually lock her up...lock her up...

[NorseViking]

“”””Crowdstrike previously claimed to have uncovered a major cyberespionage case wherein Russians, likely GRU, hacked into a Ukrainian artillery control system, and used the data to target counterbattery fire. They claimed large percentages of Ukrainian artillery pieces were destroyed because of this.””””

This couldn’t have worked without sharks and lasers.

[Hot Tabasco]

It shows that the timestamps do not prove that the files were taken with direct access to the computer.

They prove that it was impossible to copy the files via an internet hack due to the download speed of which the internet is totally incapable of handling.

If not an internet hack, what's the only alternative?

[grey_whiskers]

Hillary will enter the 2020 race just before she is arrested Picture the normies watching Hillary being taken away. The timing has to be perfect.

Speaking of Hillary...

[Chewbarkah]

My memory is that the claims of an extraordinary percentage of destruction of the artillery pieces tied to the control system turned out to be false. No more than those without it. That supports your conclusion.

I’ll admit that Crowdstrike might have been merely trying to build its business by hyping the situation. But “who benefits” from convincing the Ukrainians not to use their most modern military technology against their Russian-backed opponenents? Makes me wonder if Crowdstrike was either working for GPU, or fooled by them. Both are good reasons to press Ukraine to investigate Crowdstrike, and why Crowdstrike’s involvement with the DNC is extremely suspect.