Last week, an anonymous blogger – going by the moniker “The Forensicator” threw
cold water on some of the top theories about one of the 2016 election hacks.
Through cyber forensics, the author broke down how and when the hack likely took place.
The biggest news from it, is that it completely discredits Guccifer 2.0, who originally claimed
to be the hacker – and was thought by our government to be a Russian construct.
The analysis is highly technical and has been seemingly verified by others in the tech community.
I won’t go into the complexities – but you can go to theforensicator.wordpress.com
to see the work spelled out.
Now, to clear this up though – this ONLY deals with ONE of the three known hacks of
the 2016 election.
This analysis ONLY deals with the DNC hack that revealed the party’s playbook against
Donald Trump, as well as contact lists and financial documents.
This is not the hack of the Podesta emails – which is largely thought to have stemmed
from a spear-phishing attack – which Guccifer 2.0 also had claimed responsibility for - and
it is not the attempted hack of the voting machine manufacturer, which was largely attributed
to the Russian government.
Discrediting Guccifer 2.0 in this hack actually damages the arguments of both the Russia-obsessed
groups as well as right-wing conspiracy theorists that are rallying over the death of Seth Rich.
But the data from The Forensicator show that the documents were likely lifted by someone
that had direct access to the DNC network – not over the internet like was previously
claimed.
So what does this mean?
Well, for starters, it means that what we’ve been told by the government is incorrect.
The intelligence community, the Senate, and the House Intelligence committee, including
Rep. Adam Schiff, attributed ALL of the DNC hacks to Guccifer 2.0 – which has been in
turn has been attributed to Russia.
And for a brief period, Guccifer 2.0 was a media obsession – as the named and admitted
hacker.
Media outlets even did complex language analysis to determine that Guccifer 2.0 was Moldovan
– even though most believe that the account was simply run through several translation
service.
But, it is more and more likely that the account was a fake.
It also means that people like Roger Stone and Aaron Nevins – that were talking to
Guccifer 2.0 were duped – and it also means that Guccifer 2.0 was not some rogue DNC insider.
This also dispels some of the stories surrounding Seth Rich.
While the date of the hack is five days before Seth Rich’s murder, it dispels the myths
that Rich had contact with Guccifer 2.0 and that the Podesta emails and the DNC document
hack were related.
The conspiracy theory was that Rich, thus Guccifer 2.0, had ALL of the DNC documents,
including the emails.
It also highlights a major problem with the current leading evidence on the matter.
The majority of the accepted evidence came from an analysis done by CrowdStrike – an
internet security company contracted by the DNC.
The DNC has not allowed investigators independent access to their servers.
Even when other security firms reviewed the hacks, they reviewed Crowdstrike’s data,
not raw information.
There is even evidence that CrowdStrike edited data to attribute the hacks to the unidentified
Guccifer persona and thus Russia.
This is highly unusual.
Again – this doesn’t mean Russia did not interfere in our election.
This does not mean that Seth Rich was or was not involved – I’m not going down that
road.
But, it dispels a lot of the conspiracy theories out there.
More importantly it means that that Guccifer 2.0 is a fake or at least a liar.
Thus, what we have been told – by our government – about the hacks is incorrect.
It means the DNC and CrowdStike have been lying to us.
I mean - how in the hell are random people on the internet outsmarting the investigation
– OH, I KNOW – BECAUSE THE CONGRESSMEN AND INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS INVOLVED – ON
BOTH SIDES - ALL HAVE POLITICAL GOALS and the truth is only getting in the way of
their narrative.