This is probably the best example of "you can't argue with stupid". Lindell offered a reward to anybody who could prove his data isn't from the 2020 election, but that's like proving there are no space aliens. You can't prove a negative.
All we can show is that it's junk, with nothing tying Lindell's data to the 2020 election. It looks completely made up. It's not "proof" of anything.
I claim to have absolute proof, that's been verified by independent experts, that space aliens hacked the 2020 elections. I'll give $10 million to anybody who proves me wrong!!!
Still can't argue with stupid. "I'll totally ignore that point and shift the conversation to another point, which is also bogus".
As a computer expert, I know that Splunk logs and routers wouldn't show the election was hacked.
The most such logs could show is that election computers were improperly connected to the network instead of airgapped. Since they record only metadata and not content, it'd be impossible to show whether hacking occurred.
At the symposium, when cyberexperts were pointing out Lindell's "proof" was junk, the response was "the Mesa county image is real proof". When the Mesa image proved to be junk, it became "just wait until the Maricopa audit". Now it's "wait until Nov 23"
1/ I fully support the idea that people should question authority. I don't like how when people have questions about covid vaccines, they are told to shut up and comply with authority rather than getting answers.
So I'm going to attempt to answer this question:
2/ Yes, yes, it doesn't look like a reasonable question (not even a ? question-mark). It looks like combative statements and snark from a conspiracy theorist who has all the answers. Maybe. But this is also what real questions look like. Questioning authority means debate.
3/ The statements it makes are false. The 'myocarditis' effect is rare, around 1 in a million. It's just that with millions of doses being given, exceedingly rare events become measurable.
"Sidejacking" was a variant of cookie hijacking, grabbing them by sniffing the network instead of by tricks within a webpage. Back then, websites would protect your login with SSL, but the rest of the session would not use SSL, and cookies would be sent in the clear.
It meant I could walk by any Starbucks with public WiFi and instantly access their Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or other webmail sessions. Or any active website connection, really.
Also, worked well with corporate WEP encrypted networks before WPA2.
1/ It's weird how much this Rachel Maddow episode repeats Mike Lindell almost verbatim. Both assure us that data showing a conspiracy has been validated by cyberexperts, and that no credible expert has refuted it.
I'm a credible expert, and I refute both.
2/ There is no "Trump server". The Trump org had no control over the domain, and barring some vast convoluted theory probably involving space aliens, no control over the "server" that the domain pointed to.
3/ The domain was created by Cendyn, a hotel marketing company. Among their marketing activities is sending bulk emails, which they outsource to a company called Listrak.
This is "Cybersecurity Awareness Month". It's a good time to remind people that it's stupid.
The idea of "security" is inherently irrational and political. The following is a good example. There's never the political will to not be scared. The only question is "how scared".
It's like "active shooter" drills in school. All the evidence points to them being ineffective.
This won't stop schools from doing them, because security is important. shrm.org/resourcesandto…
Same with armed security guards in school. There's no evidence they help. There's a lot of evidence they make other things worse, elevating normal disciplinary issues into law enforcement issues. contemporarypediatrics.com/view/can-armed…
2/ Take vaccines and masks, the things that people get really angry about. The scientific data supporting the "safety" and "efficacy" of vaccines is really, REALLY good.
But the data for masks is shitty, REALLY shitty. And yet, we can't acknowledge this.
3/ There's good reason to believe that masks help reduce the spread. It may be only a little, but it may be the factor that reduces R₀ from 1.1 down to 0.9, meaning a small effect can have huge consequences.
So there's good reasons to support mask mandate policies.