your words.
i also said ahistorical and derailing.
Maybe there’s a more appropriate place for that?
So, you have nothing useful to add, no intelligible criticism, but you want me to shut up because I am interrupting this shitty narrative? We’ve been listening to this garbage for well over a year, and it continues to make no sense. I understand you seem to have invested a lot in the story of the Russian Hack, but you are wrong, just like everyone who believed Iraq had WMDs, and for the same reason: because you choose to believe the shitty claims of bad actors so you could have a bogeyman to scowl at.
You won’t accept this; like the Iraq war supporters it will take you years to swallow your pride and admit your mistake. But years from now, when you are eating crow, just remember I told you this, and how it could have been different if you had read the world more critically.
Finally, please read this. It is by sane, credible people, many of whom have been calling out bullshit since Powell’s UN speech. It is my best hope of changing your mind.
Oh for the love of Mike! The transfer speed red herring. How many times does this need to be debunked?
You know what it shows? It shows exactly what you’d get if you zipped up a bunch of directories locally on a fast LAN before downloading the compressed set over the slow Internet. Why didn’t some of these “experts” talk to a real hacker?
P.S. That peak rate makes LAN transfer to a USB flash stick highly improbable. Not impossible, but it presumes a pretty magical USB3 stick.
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‘Full English breakfast in front of the fire?’
As a Texan, I don’t know what that means.
I think everyone here is familiar with that juxtaposition.
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That’s a shame - you should move to Philadelphia. No black pudding or bangers?
Read this, it is written exactly for your straw man: http://g-2.space/deciders/
Here is a good bit on USB2 issues: https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/peak-38-mbs-transfer-speed/
Sorry, but I read all those at the time.
This is in addition to published detailed report by mysterious IT specialist named The Forensicator who debunked Russian hoax story using the “estimated speed of transfer (23 MB/s)” at which the documents were copied, showing DNC documents could not have been copied at such speed from a remote location but by a leaker inside their own office.
Repeating the same red herring doesn’t increase its truthiness in support of a dishonest garbage conclusion. It’s entirely consistent with someone with remote access locally compressing the files before downloading the zip over the Internet, like any sane hacker would do.
This peak rate of 38 MB/s is much closer to the practical maximum transfer speed of a USB-2 storage device. The theoretical maximum speed for USB-2 is 60 MB/s, but for various technical reasons, it is closer to 55 MB/s. The practical maximum, due to various implementation issues is approximately 45 MB/s. In practice, realized speeds are noticeably lower than that.
In other words, a USB flash drive would have been hard pressed to keep up with observed transfer speed. Thank you, no further questions.
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The calculated rate is lower than that by a fair margin. Plus, here is an empirical result confirming this scenario: https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/the-need-for-speed/
Finally, here is a good discussion of your local copy theory and others: https://theforensicator.wordpress.com/2017/08/24/alternative-scenarios/
This is not proof, of course, but it certainly casts doubt.
But such flash drives are available, I’ve owned several that at least benchmarked that fast, and in use seemed dramatically faster than other flash drives, and that was in 2010 or earlier (I ran most of my windows apps off a flash drive at one point, so performance really mattered).
Some will, a lot won’t. That’s why I said improbable, but not impossible. Later in the narrative, Forensicator edges in that it could be a removable hard drive in FAT format, but that wouldn’t be a stealthy as a USB stick.
Scientists are hard at work designing a successor to usb 2.0. Called Superspeed, this tech is likely to reach consumers in 2008.
Of course, you could take the english breakfast (eggs, beans, sausage, bacon, tomato, mushrooms, black pudding) & just wrap it in a big tortilla.
Where’s one get a full English in Philly?
Dandelion on the weekends. 18th & Sansom Street
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