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The Nation, right-wing? Hardly. You may want to use this link to check out the leanings of of publications. Or, you know, Google it.
Well, maybe right wing. The magazine did endorse Bernie.
Fair enough...they've got some credibility..and I'll be cleaning the egg off my face.
Not sure how much it matters..even if true though. The focus has moved so far past the hack.
The Right's tactic of trying to find enough mud to sling back at the Left is flawed. It's akin to fighting a house fire by lighting the neighbors house on fire.
Sorry, Coalman, I didn't see your post at first. But I seem to reacall that you actually manage some websites of your own and usually have good insight on internet technical matters.
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You can use either, browser often use MB/s. If this was a pipe mbps can be considered the pressure and MB's the volume. In this case according to the article they know the amount of data and how long it took so it's simple matter of dividing the amount of data by the seconds to come up with MB/s.
Max speed does not equal what you will get even in an ideal situation such as you have adapters on two computers hooked directly to each other with an ethernet cable. If it's one large file it will fly , if it's a lot of smaller files speeds can be reduced considerably. At the end of the day your speed is going to be limited by whatever the weak link in the chain is. That starts at the medium the data is being read from to the data it's being written to, there is whole lot links in that chain in between.
Yes, I know that Max speeds in the IEEE standards are theoretic maximums, but I also know that practical speeds tend to be about half of the theoretical maximum speeds - unless the mechanical engineers in my office are clogging the data pipe with another one of their CAD file transfers again. Fortunately, I don't work in the same building with mech engineers anymore. Bottom line though, these CAD files are huge and need to be shared with outside clients on a regular basis, so it's definitely possible that enterprise level organizations have bandwidth that Peter Lawrence claims isn't available to anyone.
On top of that, we're all assuming that the hack had to be either via some Romanian server because the Russian troll Guccifer claims that's how he did it, or it had to be via a USB flash drive hooked directly into a workstation or server at the DNC headquarters. But this is forcing a false dilemma - some enterprising young hacker could have just as easily parked his car in front of the DNC headquarters, opened his laptop, logged into the WiFi (either through forced hacking or through phished credentials), and downloaded the information from the DNC servers. Wireless 802.11n can easily handle the transfer rates that Patrick Lawrence's anonymous sources claim were utilized.
Fair enough...they've got some credibility..and I'll be cleaning the egg off my face.
Not sure how much it matters..even if true though. The focus has moved so far past the hack.
The Right's tactic of trying to find enough mud to sling back at the Left is flawed. It's akin to fighting a house fire by lighting the neighbors house on fire.
Both still burn.
Thanks for the lesson.
Thanks for that.
I read as much as I can from all sources and then independently make an informed opinion. I'm not sure we will ever know the complete truth about anything our government does or says.
It really does matter though. There are those that want the truth, no matter what it may be. Hopefully we will know the truth when it presents itself.
Misleading and false headline. This is NOT the work of "NSA Experts." The NSA did not produce this report and did not endorse it. These former government employees may have been paid by Trump supporters or are Trump supporters themselves. The credibility of this report is lacking.
Yes they are NSA experts. Because they no longer work for them means their credibility is gone?
What an absurd thought process.
May have been paid? You made that up because you have no proof. Just like the loony left made up the Russian hacking. No physical proof whatsoever but don't let that get in the way either. Any wonder why only 3 agencies FBI, CIA, and NSA signed off on the "hacking report"? Because there was no physical evidence.
Interesting..but I'll wait for a more reputable source..Right-wing sites have an ax to grind..and can no more be trusted to tell the truth than Trump.
I got to admit though..that the whole Russian thing has passed me by--so what if they did..and so what if they did not.
I appreciate the issue in that it was a wedge into Trump's possible financial corruption--and it cannot be denied..the Russians are in the picture. Just how it all fits..is why we have an investigator. After all, Ken Starr did not start out looking for sexual misconduct by Clinton, now did he?
No one forced Trump Jr. to meet with the Russian lawyer--he was looking for dirt. Not a crime..afaik--but indicative of the mindset of Trump's inner circle.
We shall see...gotta admit..it's entertaining as all get out.
Right wing site? hahahaha The nation leans hard left. How many things are you going to make up in your posts on this thread?
Yes they are NSA experts. Because they no longer work for them means their credibility is gone?
What an absurd thought process.
May have been paid? You made that up because you have no proof. Just like the loony left made up the Russian hacking. No physical proof whatsoever but don't let that get in the way either. Any wonder why only 3 agencies FBI, CIA, and NSA signed off on the "hacking report"? Because there was no physical evidence.
British intelligence warned the US in 2015 that the Russians got into the DNC servers, long before this supposed "inside download job" happened.
And yes, the credibility of these ex-employees is questionable. Happens all the time where former employees become expert witnesses in lawsuits. What they say depends on who pays them.
The data transfer rate from the alleged hack of the DNC server was 22.7 megabytes per second. No ISP has that kind of speed, the top speed is around 16 megabytes per second.
However, that speed can be achieved when using a thumb drive.
The CIA, the National Security Agency, the F.B.I. and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence all determined that Russia hacked the presidential election. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/u...a-fbi-nsa.html
And even Donald Trump’s top intelligence officials accept the conclusion that Russia hacked the election. Trump
And according to other sources your source is "neither conclusive proof nor strong evidence. It’s a extremely long-winded product of a crank."
Your source lists "an anonymous analyst calling himself “Forensicator,” on the “metadata” of “locked files” leaked by the hacker Guccifer 2.0.This should, already, set off alarm bells: An anonymous analyst is claiming to have analyzed the “metadata” of “locked files” that only this analyst had access to?"
"The crux of the whole thing — the opening argument — rests on the fact that, according to “metadata,” the data was transferred at about 22 megabytes per second... Most households don’t get internet speeds that high, but enterprise operations, like the DNC — or, uh, the FSB — would have access to a higher but certainly not unattainable speed like that. If that’s your strongest evidence, your argument is already in trouble."
Fair enough...they've got some credibility..and I'll be cleaning the egg off my face.
Not sure how much it matters..even if true though. The focus has moved so far past the hack.
The Right's tactic of trying to find enough mud to sling back at the Left is flawed. It's akin to fighting a house fire by lighting the neighbors house on fire.
Both still burn.
Thanks for the lesson.
Before patting this guy on the back for his integrity let's keep in mind that he's admitting we're in blue dress territory at this point.
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