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A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack (thenation.com)
3 points by ZoeZoeBee on Aug 12, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I find it impossible to take this article seriously, given claims such as this (note the last sentence):

The metadata established several facts in this regard with granular precision: On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were downloaded from the DNC’s server. The operation took 87 seconds. This yields a transfer rate of 22.7 megabytes per second.

These statistics are matters of record and essential to disproving the hack theory. No Internet service provider, such as a hacker would have had to use in mid-2016, was capable of downloading data at this speed.


Same reaction here - this is based on the premise that the data was transferred directly from the DNC server to somebody's home connection, and doesn't allow for the possibility that it was first transferred to some server in a data center.

https://blog.serverdensity.com/network-performance-aws-googl...

Just some random article from 2014, look at the data points for transfers between data centers where anybody can rent servers:

  Amazon "us-east" <-> "us-west" 210 mbit/s
  Google "us-central" <-> "europe-west" 189 mbit/s 
  Rackspace "Dallas" <-> "North Virginia" 534 mbit/s
  Softlayer "Dallas" <-> "Amsterdam" 61 mbit/s




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