New Analysis Kills DNC Hacking Narrative, Shows Russian Data Trail Was Forged

(Jay Syrmopoulos) Washington, D.C. – A damning new technical analysis reveals that files stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 2016 election cycle were most likely downloaded to a USB drive by someone with physical access to a computer connected to the DNC network. The analysis refutes the official narrative of the files being hacked remotely by the Russians – as popularized by the U.S. corporate media, without any actual evidence ever publicly presented.

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Source – The Free Thought Project

by Jay Syrmopoulos, July 23rd, 2017

The alleged DNC hacker, Guccifer 2.0, in an interview with Motherboard in June 2016, claimed he used a zero-day exploit to bypass security on the DNC servers and steal files, which he subsequently published under the title “NGP-VAN.”

While the DNC leak was quickly attributed to the Russian hackers by U.S. intelligence agencies, a document published by an individual going by the name Forensicator reveals how the 7-zip file published by Guccifer 2.0 was transferred at a speed of 23 MB/s, making it “unlikely that this initial data transfer could have been done remotely over the Internet.”

“The initial copying activity was likely done from a computer system that had direct access to the data,” the report from the Forensicator stated. “By ‘direct access’ we mean that the individual who was collecting the data either had physical access to the computer where the data was stored, or the data was copied over a local high speed network (LAN).”

Thus, the Forensicator’s analysis determined that the files were likely built on a computer system running on Eastern Daylight Savings Time (EDT) timezone, meaning that the system was most likely located somewhere on the East Coast of the United States.

Additionally, the Forensicator also generated a list of the files sorted by the date they were last modified and imported the list into an Excel spreadsheet. Analyzing the files by date last modified, he observed that the last modified times were clustered together in a 14-minute time period on July 5, 2016.

In an analysis of the metadata, he found a majority of the time it took for the files to be copied, 12 minutes and 48 seconds of the 14 minutes and 15 seconds, was allocated to “time gaps” that appear between several top-level files and directories. The report concluded that this indicated that the files were chosen from a much larger collection of files.

Finally, and perhaps most damning of all, the transfer speed of the files published by Guccifer 2.0, was determined by the Forensicator, which he concluded that if the 1.98 GB 7-zip archive published by Guccifer was copied at a rate of 22.6 MB/s, and all the time gaps were attributed to additional file copying, the initial file copy would be 10 times larger, or 19.3 GB.

All of this leads to a likely conclusion that Guccifer 2.0 is/was a U.S. intelligence asset deployed to muddy the waters surrounding the DNC leak and shift blame to the Russians.

What, if any, independent, verifiable evidence is there that Guccifer 2.0 hacked the DNC?

Basically, there is no evidence to show the Guccifer 2.0 persona was Wikileaks source. There is no evidence that he actually hacked into the DNC beyond the fact he had acquired some DNC/DCCC documents. Conversely, there is significant evidence to contradict his claims thanks to ThreatConnect discrediting his breach claims, and revealing that he was intentionally working to get attributed for the malware discoveries!

Even more damning, according to Forensicator, the Guccifer 2.0 persona curiously chose to “use a Russian VPN (after choosing to taint documents with Russian language) and was noted to have been in possession of a password for a password-protected area of the DCLeaks site (which, plausibly, he could have been given after promising to upload some of his leaks – DCLeaks were willing to give the same password out to the press in exchange for the promise of writing a story about them!)”

Virtually everything previously reported about the Guccifer 2.0 persona has been based on assumption, acceptance of his admissions as factual, with the U.S. public being propagandized by a corporate media to take his conjecture at face value, while the real story is who is behind this persona, and for what purpose?

In summation, we’ve seen deliberately placed “Russian Fingerprints,” efforts to forge perceived association to Wikileaks and Seth Rich, and DNC breach claims discredited.

The report notes that, Guccifer 2.0 utilized “‘Trump Opposition Research’ like it was an identity card only one day after it was advertised by Shawn Henry in a Washington Post article. This likely U.S. intelligence asset publicly noted how he could only ever “hack” the DNC, lacked syntactical traits of a Russian speaking English and recently – has been shown as most likely to have accessed some of his files locally, while on the DNC network (within the Eastern Time zone).”

It appears likely that the appearance of the Guccifer 2.0 person was an intelligence operation designed to hide the fact that the DNC was not hacked by Russians, and was more than likely accessed by someone with physical access to the DNC servers.