This is by far the most alarming and potentially important detail in the DNC hack indictment. https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/07/13/the-russian-hack/ …pic.twitter.com/eqDGpsiLnK
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I've been seriously trying to take a look at that the last couple of weeks, from a technical perspective (going through Mandiant's report, etc). I would love to get pointers to info source you have for that. (There clearly WAS disinformation going on, but...
...there still remain, after almost 2 years, a ton of loose ends and contradictory statements never properly explained, if you look at the technical details in depth.)
Maybe f-up with me in a few days? Some of what I know I'm not prepared to share yet. But have info from several directions on this one.
Would be great. My life will never be complete until this question is decided one way or another!
The Alfa Bank story never made sense to me. The DNS traffic they pointed to as technical evidence is simply not how conspirators would communicate.
Oh my gosh this is the key to LM's theories so she will be upset ;)
I'm kind of annoyed LM promoted this because it gets tainted by association with her. But the technical explanation Mandiant came up with does not make sense (IF the DNS logs are accurate and Alfa isn't lying). So, you know, loose end.
But we don't have provenance to be able assess it IRL. It's disinfo. I say that with a reasonable degree of certainty.
then why did @FranklinFoer and the cyber-security analysts he spoke w/ for his article get as much blowback as they did, including serious threats? He said he’d never experienced anything remotely like it for any other piece.
I am very skeptical that the story was “disinfo.”
Evidence for that is what?
There was certainly disinfo in follow-up blogs by some prominent Twitter accounts -- which could possibly be Russian -- but the original Franklin Foer work? Wow. That's a bold statement right there.
Is this why Foer backed away from this story? Never adequately explained, and outside his Manafort opus he moved on to writing about social media. This has been a black hole either way
If the Alfa bank - Trump Tower connect is disinfo then do we have less to worry about in Benczkowski?
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