A couple of years ago Mike Lindell put on a Cyber Symposium, where he claimed he had packet captures that would show the Chinese hacked the 2020 election and stole it from Trump.
He offered a 5-million-dollar challenge to anyone who could prove the packet captures didn’t show what he claimed, fairly quickly a computer engineer did prove the packet captures were false.
Lindell refused to pay, the computer engineer sued, a court appointed arbitrator ruled against Lindell, who refused to pay and recently a Federal Judge ruled that Lindell should pay up and he’s refused to pay up again pledging to appeal to a higher court.
He was scammed by Dennis Montgomery and a couple of other pseudo-experts. Can’t admit he was snookered.
Thanks for the explanation.
Exactly how did the engineer prove it? Curious.
"computer engineer did prove the packet captures were false"
Not exactly. If I may, facts:
The data that was distributed to, and downloaded by/for, the Lindell Challenge participants' examination, did not include any perceivable vote data.
Lindell's challenge: Participants could win if they proved that the data, provided by Lindell, WAS NOT real election data, according to rules the participants agreed to.
The data supplied, was a mixed bag of some info that could be read - but could not be proven to be vote data . . . plus a bunch of info that could not be read, because it was in raw RTF format that could not be reverse-engineered into any readable text.
Meaning, that mess could be reverse-engineered into HEX characters, but the HEX characters are in continuous, very, very long strings that frustrate conversion to sensible words.
Zeidman, re-considering the challenge rules, abandoned the effort to make sense of the data . . . and focused upon the fact, that there was NOTHING to prove that any of the information supplied at the Lindell Challenge, was "packet evidence from the 2020 election."
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2021/08/13/lindells-own-cyber-expert-claims-election-data-is-illegitimate/
PS. I have the data. But no computer power, to allow long-term processing of the HEX strings, to see what sensible words may be found in the very large amount of HEX gibberish.