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A few days ago we learned how to turn a US DOCX Word file into a Russian DOC file. With Notepad it took 2 min. An outdated Word version + Russian language settings is even faster. Save the DOCX as RTF and change the file extension to DOC. Voila!
But what about the internet speed?
But what about the internet speed?
FACT: On July 5, 2016, 1976 MB were downloaded from the DNC server within 87sec.
Alleged experts criticize 2 things:
1) Forensicator is anonymous
2) Internet providers offer 500 megabits per second routinely
So there's no reason not to blame the Russians, is there?
Alleged experts criticize 2 things:
1) Forensicator is anonymous
2) Internet providers offer 500 megabits per second routinely
So there's no reason not to blame the Russians, is there?
The DNC had actually registered some hacking attempts and some hackers had apparently come quite far but...
The Internet speed experts recommend that we take a look at Akamai's global broadband ranking. So I downloaded Akamai's Q3-2016-state-of-the-internet-connectivity report.
Of course the Internet speed is subject to certain fluctuations, but the parameter "Average Peak Connection Speed" only takes into account the maximum speeds that could be reached in the course of a year.
According to the report, the USA reached an average speed of 16.3 megabits per second and a peak of 70.8 megabits per second in 2016.
This means that at its best this US bottleneck was not even half as fast as those DNC files were downloaded.
This means that at its best this US bottleneck was not even half as fast as those DNC files were downloaded.
Within the US Maryland was the fastest and Maryland reached a peak of just 50% of the necessary speed. Washington was 9th at the peak and was on average not one of the 10 fastest states.
Worldwide, Singapore reached first place in the Peak-speed charts, but not even one peak in Singapore reached the necessary speed of 180 Mbps (Megabits per second).
Romania was in 10th place with a peak of 85 Mbps and Russia...
Romania was in 10th place with a peak of 85 Mbps and Russia...
So, dear friends of Russian conspiracy theory, how could FancyBear have made a connection to Washington on Russia's best day of the year, capable of downloading 180 megabits per second?
Is this another nonsense, like the crickets in Cuba?
Is this another nonsense, like the crickets in Cuba?
Alternative Theory: The whole Guccifer2.0 nonsense was staged to at least blame Russia after noticing some data theft of extremely embarressing files. They probably wanted to pre-empt Wikileaks and limit the damage by at least implying that Wikileaks was somehow Russian. ...
So they edited 5 affected files "Russian" and quickly put them into circulation as "Guccifer2.0". Of course, the staged Guccifer could not speak Romanian.
When Wikileaks came out with the same files (unchanged), one could claim that Wikileaks works for the Russian secret service.
When Wikileaks came out with the same files (unchanged), one could claim that Wikileaks works for the Russian secret service.
Quite clever Феликс Новичок, but technically, unfortunately, nonsense.
