Conspiracy Theories / Wild Predictions

[AZ_]

 

[AZ_]

@gourimoko

Thoughts on articles and conspiracy theories with regards to people claiming the hacking of the DNC was not in fact Russia?

https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

Forensicator’s first decisive findings, made public in the paper dated July 9, concerned the volume of the supposedly hacked material and what is called the transfer rate—the time a remote hack would require. The metadata established several facts in this regard with granular precision: On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were downloaded from the DNC’s server. The operation took 87 seconds. This yields a transfer rate of 22.7 megabytes per second.

These statistics are matters of record and essential to disproving the hack theory. No Internet service provider, such as a hacker would have had to use in mid-2016, was capable of downloading data at this speed. Compounding this contradiction, Guccifer claimed to have run his hack from Romania, which, for numerous reasons technically called delivery overheads, would slow down the speed of a hack even further from maximum achievable speeds.

 

[gourimoko]

@gourimoko

Thoughts on articles and conspiracy theories with regards to people claiming the hacking of the DNC was not in fact Russia?

https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

It's borderline idiotic.

If you remember when we did the IPTV thing for NBA games and there was a Plex/Roku channel I setup? Initially I had intended on transcoding and streaming the NBA stream so I setup a VPS with a large throughput. I was running that out of the Czech Republic on a 1gbit connection. My synchronous connection could upload/download at ~100mbytes/sec. That's gourimoko, in 2015, on RCF. In 2016, I did the same thing for a different unfinished project that was stream-based (cough)..

If I were hacking the DNC, do you really fucking think I would do it from my house and not do it from a cheap/anonymous bitcoin-based VPS that has a cheap 1gbit pipe? I spent all of 15 minutes getting a completely anonymous setup just to stream NBA games... If I'm hacking political parties, would I not do the same or more?

Again.. just.. reading that.. makes me sad for our STEM education system.