April 10, 2017
Mighty Crowdstrike has STruck Out; Problems with the Russian Hack Report
Timothy Birdnow
According to the U.K. Daily Mail Crowdstrike, the cyber security firm hired by the Democrats to conclude that Russia "hacked" the election and denying Hillary her birthright, is coming under fire.
From the article:
"But now the first expert company to make a link between the DNC hacks and the Kremlin is facing a damaging series of questions over its credibility, DailyMail.com can disclose.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has had to retract portions of a report supporting its allegations of Russian cyberattacks – and is also refusing to address Congress about its findings on Moscow's election hacking.
CrowdStrike was hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate suspicious network activity last May. In June it declared that the committee had been hacked by the Russian government, starting a firestorm over the campaign.
CrowdStrike, based in Irvine, California, is also the only group that the DNC allowed to directly examine its servers.
Not even the FBI has been granted access to the servers."
End excerpt.
Get that? The "concensus" report by national security agencies was all based on the Crowdstrike report, meaning that if the Democrats hired Crowdstrike to make certain findings then we have no way of knowing if it is true or not. It is rather like a suspect of a crime supplying all the forensic reports to the Court.
The Daily Mail continues:
"DailyMail.com can disclose that in March CrowdStrike quietly retracted portions of a December report that had made further Russian hacking claims, after the firm was found to have relied on inaccurate data posted online by a pro-Putin 'propaganda' blogger.
The errors prompted both the Ukrainian military and a prominent British think tank to issue public statements disputing CrowdStrike's data.
The errors, and retraction, surrounded a report in December which claimed that Fancy Bear, the same Russian hackers it said were behind the DNC attacks, were working on behalf of Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU.
CrowdStrike said it found evidence that Fancy Bear had also hacked into Ukrainian military technology using the same software it used to infiltrate the DNC.
According to the report, the hackers were targeting an app used by Ukrainian soldiers to improve the efficiency of ther 122mm howitzers. The hack resulted in Ukraine losing 80 percent of these weapons in its ongoing low-level battle with Russian forces in the east of the country, the report said.
The report received widespread attention, including from NBC News, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian."
End excerpt.
Even an incompetent investigator knows enough to demand to examine the evidence himself, rather than relying on a for profit company hired by the claimant. As this has had serious domestic and national security implications, the F.B.I. was more than duty bound to make it's own inquiries. That it did not shows that this whole story is as legitimate as the million dollar bill someone tried to pass a number of years ago.
The Democrats strategy is to deligitimize Donald Trump any way they can. Claiming the Russians stole the election for Trump (something that makes no sense as trump is by far the more aggressive of the two candidates and he wants cheap oil and gas - something that would destroy the Russian economy) goes a long way to marginalizing the winner of last November's election. (Hillary actually made huge amounts of money from the Russians by brokering a deal for a Russian controlled Canadian company to buy a quarter of all American uranium in return for a hefty donation to the Clinton Foundation.)
An old saw for mystery novel fans is that a case against someone is built on three legs - means, motive, and opportunity. The Democrats clearly have motive. They also have the means. We can now see that, thanks to the lazy or dishonest American security apparatus, the so-called "deep state" of Obama quislings - we now see they had opportunity as well. This whole Russian hack business is as phony as Potemkin's false front village.
He who pays the bills is the boss. The Democrats hired a private company and kept the F.b.I. and C.I.A. out of the loop for a reason. They prefered to spend their own money on this than turn it over to a better funded and more capable U.S. government agency. Why? It's almost as if they didn't want the truth to come out.
Seems to me that served their purposes just fine.
According to the U.K. Daily Mail Crowdstrike, the cyber security firm hired by the Democrats to conclude that Russia "hacked" the election and denying Hillary her birthright, is coming under fire.
From the article:
"But now the first expert company to make a link between the DNC hacks and the Kremlin is facing a damaging series of questions over its credibility, DailyMail.com can disclose.
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has had to retract portions of a report supporting its allegations of Russian cyberattacks – and is also refusing to address Congress about its findings on Moscow's election hacking.
CrowdStrike was hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate suspicious network activity last May. In June it declared that the committee had been hacked by the Russian government, starting a firestorm over the campaign.
CrowdStrike, based in Irvine, California, is also the only group that the DNC allowed to directly examine its servers.
Not even the FBI has been granted access to the servers."
End excerpt.
Get that? The "concensus" report by national security agencies was all based on the Crowdstrike report, meaning that if the Democrats hired Crowdstrike to make certain findings then we have no way of knowing if it is true or not. It is rather like a suspect of a crime supplying all the forensic reports to the Court.
The Daily Mail continues:
"DailyMail.com can disclose that in March CrowdStrike quietly retracted portions of a December report that had made further Russian hacking claims, after the firm was found to have relied on inaccurate data posted online by a pro-Putin 'propaganda' blogger.
The errors prompted both the Ukrainian military and a prominent British think tank to issue public statements disputing CrowdStrike's data.
The errors, and retraction, surrounded a report in December which claimed that Fancy Bear, the same Russian hackers it said were behind the DNC attacks, were working on behalf of Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU.
CrowdStrike said it found evidence that Fancy Bear had also hacked into Ukrainian military technology using the same software it used to infiltrate the DNC.
According to the report, the hackers were targeting an app used by Ukrainian soldiers to improve the efficiency of ther 122mm howitzers. The hack resulted in Ukraine losing 80 percent of these weapons in its ongoing low-level battle with Russian forces in the east of the country, the report said.
The report received widespread attention, including from NBC News, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian."
End excerpt.
Even an incompetent investigator knows enough to demand to examine the evidence himself, rather than relying on a for profit company hired by the claimant. As this has had serious domestic and national security implications, the F.B.I. was more than duty bound to make it's own inquiries. That it did not shows that this whole story is as legitimate as the million dollar bill someone tried to pass a number of years ago.
The Democrats strategy is to deligitimize Donald Trump any way they can. Claiming the Russians stole the election for Trump (something that makes no sense as trump is by far the more aggressive of the two candidates and he wants cheap oil and gas - something that would destroy the Russian economy) goes a long way to marginalizing the winner of last November's election. (Hillary actually made huge amounts of money from the Russians by brokering a deal for a Russian controlled Canadian company to buy a quarter of all American uranium in return for a hefty donation to the Clinton Foundation.)
An old saw for mystery novel fans is that a case against someone is built on three legs - means, motive, and opportunity. The Democrats clearly have motive. They also have the means. We can now see that, thanks to the lazy or dishonest American security apparatus, the so-called "deep state" of Obama quislings - we now see they had opportunity as well. This whole Russian hack business is as phony as Potemkin's false front village.
He who pays the bills is the boss. The Democrats hired a private company and kept the F.b.I. and C.I.A. out of the loop for a reason. They prefered to spend their own money on this than turn it over to a better funded and more capable U.S. government agency. Why? It's almost as if they didn't want the truth to come out.
Seems to me that served their purposes just fine.
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