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EXCLUSIVE: Mike Lindell’s lead cyber expert says they can’t prove China hacked 2020 election
Washington Times ^ | Aug 11, 2021 | Joseph Clark

Posted on 08/11/2021 6:44:11 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s lead cyber expert now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.

Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or “packet captures” that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched.

But Mr. Lindell’s lead cyber expert, Josh Merritt, told The Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyberincursion by China.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bang; boom; election; electiontheft; gullible; mikelindell; mypillow; nothingburger; pillowpusher; qrepublic; stolenelection; theusualsuspect; theusualsuspects; trump
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

I am categorically not willing to blame the chinese. who most likely did everything they could to perform cyber warfare and destroy our election process. The people who stole the election are the men and women who added the extra ballots into the scanners that inflated the counts for biden. We have video of atlanta. I have the totals from Delco, PA. Americans betrayed this county not chinese hackers.


61 posted on 08/11/2021 7:58:12 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: freeandfreezing
"Clarification: The article previously described Mr. Merritt as Lindell’s lead cyber expert. Mr. Merritt is a cyber expert on the red team hired by Mr. Lindell to interrogate the data for the symposium, and does not work directly for Mr. Lindell."

I wondered why the article title changed from when I posted it. Thanks.

62 posted on 08/11/2021 7:59:47 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Widget Jr

“I don’t think China hacked the election. The Democrat party, Democrat Secretaries of State, a compliant Republican party, and corrupt courts let it get stolen. There was never any need to send data outside and back into the U.S. to throw the election once the software is in the necessary computers. If Gateway Pundit is right about the identical ratios of Trump to Biden votes regardless of batch size in dozens of batches in the swing states, all it would take is a excel spreadsheet with the calculations to fix the outcome. Arguing over 3am vote dumps was almost a decoy to the real rigging of the spreadsheets tallying all the votes. Too many people are still looking for exotic scenarios instead of looking at what makes the most sense.”

Post of the month . Bang on , mate . The US is even better at propaganda , lying , etc... than the Chinese and Russians .


63 posted on 08/11/2021 8:01:37 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: eastexsteve

“If they have even one data packet with a Chinese destination or origination IP address, then that is all they need.”

They haven’t even proved that.

And Chinese IP addresses could be spoofed by the local community college IT class.


64 posted on 08/11/2021 8:05:17 PM PDT by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

The vote switching and phony ballots were all done right here, not by Chinese hackers.


65 posted on 08/11/2021 8:06:34 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: freeandfreezing

Merritt spent his military service as a mechanic. He was never an intelligence analyst/operative, has no background in that field. According to his service record he took one introductory intelligence course but failed to finish it.


66 posted on 08/11/2021 8:08:54 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: Mariner

Uh, we can prove the world is not flat. Bad Analogy Mariner.

I don’t know if Mike is on the right track or not, but I’m not willing to give up like an Iraqi soldier. I’m willing to wait to see where this leads.


67 posted on 08/11/2021 8:09:36 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: lodi90

“The Chicomc didn’t need to hack the election. The Democrats were happy to ballot harvest and stuff the ballot boxes while the GOP looked the other way to remove Trump. Occam’s Razor applies here in spades.”

The election was stolen in the streets and the precincts, before it was even tallied at the county court house.


68 posted on 08/11/2021 8:11:48 PM PDT by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Fake news.

But you know that, DU troll.


69 posted on 08/11/2021 8:16:24 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (The Dreams In Which I’m Dying Are The Best I’ve Ever Had-“Mad World”)
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To: McGavin999

“Then you should be able to disprove it.”

Well, the problem is ... there’s no “it” to disprove.

Lots of rhetoric, speculation, and assertions - but no actual _evidence_.

Don’t get me wrong, I was having a WTF moment before 10pm on Election Day, obviously cheating was going into high gear (major metro area announced halt to counting, to resume next morning) and there’s plenty of “well that ain’t right” piling up since. Stolen election? yeah probably.

We’ve heard much of audits and recounts, but no objective details released - at least, no “well there it is” objective facts. No “well there’s 437 registered voters in this precinct and 13,273 of them voted for Joe”. No “these 1372 voters did, in fact, vote early and often”. Lots of “devastating evidence coming soon!” ... and it’s August now.

Remember, good cheating doesn’t leave evidence proving it happened. Yeah, a whole lotta archived ballots got shredded - they’re gone. Manual “naw, he _really_ wanted to vote for Joe” digital record changes happened - without a trail. If there was cheating, it only need be in a few statistically tenuous areas easily bumped back over the line with some plausible deniability.

Yeah, I’d like to disprove it.
Er ... what “it” exactly?


70 posted on 08/11/2021 8:17:27 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: Gene Eric
The TCP frame will contain the source & destination addresses. The encapsulated content could be anything and not necessarily a fragmented HTTP payload. So the point about having “just one packet” is reasonable.

That is correct. I've been retired from the industry about 20 years now, so it's been awhile for me. But HTTP is only one of many TCP/IP protocols. There is also Telnet, FTP, UDP, and a few others that are used in communication between the host and the network.

All IP hosts have a 32 bit address. To me, any destination address that does not start with a 10.0.0.0, a 172.16.0.0, or a 192.168.0.0 is suspect of going out over the internet, since the addresses I mentioned are used for local network traffic only. I would think it would be easy to filter the packets and look for those anomalies. Especially, since Dominion claimed their machines "weren't hooked to the internet."

71 posted on 08/11/2021 8:18:13 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: kempster

This thread is overflowing with Chicom trolls and leftists ( but I repeat myself).


72 posted on 08/11/2021 8:19:08 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl (The Dreams In Which I’m Dying Are The Best I’ve Ever Had-“Mad World”)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Oh my. My. My. My.
What a con.


73 posted on 08/11/2021 8:20:15 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Mariner

I can prove the world is not flat, by going out and measuring it.

In this case, I’m not sure what “it” we’re measuring.


74 posted on 08/11/2021 8:20:45 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask WHY it wants to eat our face.)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
“We were handed a turd,” he said. “And I had to take that turd and turn it into a diamond. And that’s what I think we did.”

Best quote of the article.

75 posted on 08/11/2021 8:20:59 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: Gene Eric

But is it a packet that was a response from an email request from the SOS website?


76 posted on 08/11/2021 8:21:06 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Election 2020 - bump for later....


77 posted on 08/11/2021 8:21:57 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: Gene Eric
The original, multi-layered PDF was available for quite some time. For me, the serial # typings were the dead giveaway

The doctored versions showed up pretty quick. But, I found a lot of things in that file that were dead giveaways. My boss at the time actually paid me to write a report for him and prove to him it was fake. It was hard, because he wasn't a computer geek. But, I showed him enough.

78 posted on 08/11/2021 8:21:58 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Pollard

Think his name was Montgomery.


79 posted on 08/11/2021 8:22:42 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

Nice job WT at spreading misinformation and trying to discredit the cyber audit. Unfortunately those of us who watched the proceedings and heard the statement know exactly what he said and the context he was saying it in.

The discussion was not about the internet PCAP data but the event logs that were legally supposed to have been on the updated forensic image of the server they got from Colorado. Dominion technicians reformatted the disk after the election and installed a new image destroying all the election dated files on this one machine. Those files, as Josh pointed out, were not recoverable.

Fortunately, unless you are the WT, they also have the original forensic image of the same machine before Dominion wiped it so they can very well recover the event logs from that machine once they have started up its VM and can read the logs. When Josh made these remarks I even said to myself this is going to be intentionally distorted to attack the evidence.

This had absolutely nothing to do with the PCAPS that are being validated and discussed tomorrow. Do you all see how deep this lying and deception is going to cover up the truth? These criminals will stop at nothing.


80 posted on 08/11/2021 8:22:50 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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