I know this is kind of a dead horse but his comments on NSA's capabilities, and political motivation, are interesting.
....“If [the CIA] are going to allege something like that they should show the trace route, and the path it went and how, and through which path those packets went from the DNC to the Russians to WikiLeaks. They failed to do that,” Binney added.
He said it also wouldn’t be the CIA illustrating the trace route, it would be the NSA as it owns the network and citied a previous occasion when the NSA showed the trace route of a hack from China back to a specific building in China.
“If you did it then, why are not going to do it now when this is a very serious allegation?” Binney said.
“When you send something across the network you are sending it into NSA land, and they own everything,” Binney said. “They have tens of thousands of embedded implants in terms of hardware and software around switches of the world, and they got trace route programs by the hundreds all around the switches, and they are collecting at different points throughout the network in the entire world, redundant collection. So, there is no excuse for them not to have both the content and the trace route, anything going across the network.”
Binney said he thinks the accusation is political motivated. One argument has been a neo-con drive towards sustaining military budgets as the country moves from a “war on terror” toward a “new Cold War.”
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NerdyNoodle ago
I have a friend who does cybersecurity as a civilian contractor for military installations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He says that "The idea is ludicrous. There is no way that Russia has hacked into anything." He pointed out that China tries daily to hack our intelligence and must be taken seriously but that Russia isn't really much of a threat as far as hacking goes. That was his two cents.
2impendingdoom ago
Thanks, my opinion is that either NSA or Seth Rich leaked.