dude made a video response: https://twitter.com/Burke4Senate/status/1298318463610560512
Please don't enable the spread of disinformation.
Reddit Shuts Down AMA from Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't enable the spread of disinformation.
How is this misinformation?
The basis of William Binney and Patrick Lawrence and other grifters is:
1. Filesystem timestamps are a reliable indicator of transfer speed, mechanism of transfer, or anything at all 2. It's impossible to transfer files over 23MB/s over the internet
The first is hard to disprove, admittedly. There might be some cases in which filesystem timestamps, which can be changed by all sorts of different things, are relevant.
The second though is laughably absurd. I don't know what internet the DNC server hosted in a colocation facility had. I do know for a fact that from my residential internet connection in Iowa I could transfer data well in excess of 23MB/s (a mere 184mbps) over the internet, even to servers in Russia.
From these two claims above, they state without any reservation that the DNC hack must have been an inside job, that Russia was never involved, etc. The intelligence community, the Mueller report, and multiple bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence reports all point to the hack being committed by Russian state actors.
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#14Binney seems like such an interesting person who stood up for what most folks on HN would probably agree with - that the government had been overreaching in surveillance - and he was mostly sidelined for his opinions.
People shunned by the establishment often end up being abused by the enemies of the establishment - so in this case, Fox and Infowars who would love to give this guy time on air.
He could be right, but I think his lack of awareness of why he might be wrong has really hurt him, he seems to like the attention he's been missing for the past twenty years, so I guess we're all human.
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#15The central component of the allegation that the DNC leak was an inside job as opposed to a hack has been repeated by writers at Consortium News and by journalist Patrick Lawrence: > Key among the findings of the independent forensic investigations is the conclusion that the DNC data was copied onto a storage device at a speed that far exceeds an Internet capability for a remote hack. Here's the article from Patrick…
The argument isn't that 23MB/s is so outrageously fast that it must be from a USB drive and couldn't be from the internet. The argument is that 23 MB/s is a peculiar number because it is so close to USB 2 max throughput (480Mbit in spec, but practically closer to 280Mbit due to bus access overhead and underlying storage limitations.) It's not at all unreasonable to expect that a USB2 mass storage device would cap out around there for write speeds on a larger USB 2 flash drive.
What's more relevant is the jitter on the timestamps. IF it was just an average of 23MB/s, I'd agree with you. But what I suspect is that it's sustained 23MB/s with little variation.
Putting aside wild theories about the timestamps being intentionally modified to represent a USB transfer, a sustained 23MB/s with no variation is awfully characteristic of a USB transfer.
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#16That's outrageous. If someone is a public figure, they should be allowed to speak.
They allowed him to speak. The mods also made it clear that unsubstantiated claims (from users or the guest) would not be productive and would devolve - yet he did it anyways.
I think it's safe to say the audience was aware of his POV, so expected more than regurgitation.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this misinformation?
The basis of William Binney and Patrick Lawrence and other grifters is: 1. Filesystem timestamps are a reliable indicator of transfer speed, mechanism of transfer, or anything at all 2. It's impossible to transfer files over 23MB/s over the internet The first is hard to disprove, admittedly. There might be some cases in which filesystem timestamps, which can be changed by all sorts of different things, are relevant.…
> 1. Filesystem timestamps are a reliable indicator of transfer speed, mechanism of transfer, or anything at all
How do you figure they're not? Can you explain this?
Obviously they can be modified after the fact, but you seem to be presenting a wild theory that the timestamps were presumably modified after-the-fact to represent 23MB/s. That's a wild unfalsifiable theory with zero evidence. The most likely and reasonable explanation is that the timestamps line up with 23MB/s because they were actually transferred at 23MB/s.
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#18The central component of the allegation that the DNC leak was an inside job as opposed to a hack has been repeated by writers at Consortium News and by journalist Patrick Lawrence: > Key among the findings of the independent forensic investigations is the conclusion that the DNC data was copied onto a storage device at a speed that far exceeds an Internet capability for a remote hack. Here's the article from Patrick…
The argument isn't that 23MB/s is so outrageously fast that it must be from a USB drive and couldn't be from the internet. The argument is that 23 MB/s is a peculiar number because it is so close to USB 2 max throughput (480Mbit in spec, but practically closer to 280Mbit due to bus access overhead and underlying storage limitations.) It's not at all unreasonable to expect that a USB2 mass storage device would cap out…
This is again absurd.
You have simply regurgitated a series of numbers without evidence. Meanwhile:
The Mueller report and grand jury indictments against Russian state actors, the intelligence community's public statements, and the bipartisan assessment of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence all dispute these coincidences.
Your numbers do not make sense. You write 480mbps, then you write 280mbps, but 23MB/s is 183mbps. It's also a perfectly reasonable sustained speed to get for a file transfer over the internet!
As Patrick Lawrence's source described:
> “Transfer rates of 23 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) are not just highly unlikely, but effectively impossible to accomplish when communicating over the Internet at any significant distance,”
This is obviously false, obviously disinformation, obviously wrong. Anyone could prove it wrong in 2017, I did, and I emailed, wrote, and tweeted at Patrick Lawrence and The Nation in 2017 and it was never retracted. It doesn't belong in any reporting, period, let alone reporting on the hack of the DNC servers.
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#20The central component of the allegation that the DNC leak was an inside job as opposed to a hack has been repeated by writers at Consortium News and by journalist Patrick Lawrence: > Key among the findings of the independent forensic investigations is the conclusion that the DNC data was copied onto a storage device at a speed that far exceeds an Internet capability for a remote hack. Here's the article from Patrick…
Imagine being a russiagate conspiracy theorist in 2020