the other day, a commenter observed that Guccifer2 only showed screenshots of emails, but not actual emails. Given some of the G2 theories, Henry's suggestion to House Cte that WL source obtained emails by taking screenshots was not just absurd, but perhaps a G2 dig-here
I don't think there was any such claim from anybody I regard as a leading light of infosec. (Say, Ross Anderson, Bruce Schneier, Tavis Ormandy, or Wladimir Palant...)
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in Sept 2017, I wrote a blog article in which I collected references from prominent articles to the "J Edgar Hoover" argument: https://climateaudit.org/2017/09/23/guccifer-2-and-russian-metadata/ …pic.twitter.com/mmL4StgcSM
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the originator appears to have been Matt Tait, who testified to House Intel Committee. His original thread is archived http://archive.is/uyBTQ and was extensively quoted. He appears to have later deleted it.
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some time, I'll go back and see how this claim arose and was featured.
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No quarrel with the idea that the people presented by the press as leading lights of infosec in this case are the same people presented as such in other contexts. It's just that I have different standards.
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This is exactly where it came from and how it achieved credibility. I can think of three high profile infosec people in particular. One of them was M Tait
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