My understanding was that Guccifer was created to obfuscate the real origin of the attack.
https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/
Lots of experts believe it to be an inside job b/c of the transfer rate of the files meaning it was done by usb likely. The whole thing stinks of intentionally leaked material to warrant a fake investigation. This would explain why the dnc was so reluctant to let people check their servers. If not by USB then on the east coast at the very least.
They'd later find different versions where metadata was added later inserting Russian names. Metadata and documents were even altered after the fact so they could further point the finger at Russia.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/03/on-metadata-and-manipulation-the-first-guccifer-2-0-documents/
My bet is this whole scenario was cooked up to illegally obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump's campaign. Obama's Administration weaponized by the IRS and FBI against political opponents.
Then he created a situation that would make intelligence agencies constantly susceptible to leaking information by changing the way they share data w/ each other on his way out the door..
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/12/obama-expands-the-nsas-ability-to-share-data-with-other-agencie/
This was done to further expand the deepstate. Now there are more potential leakers and perhaps even political operatives w/ access to NSA information.
Both him and Hillary make Nixon look a boy scout. If that wasn't bad enough Obama's administration quietly legalized govt. propaganda in US media again.
The 24 hour corporate news media cycle depends on the fact our population is growing stupider and is now incapable of connecting the dots as a whole. Most people just remember the headlines they've read the most and rarely read articles or have a long enough memory to comprehend what's really going on.
I studied the election cycle quite closely. I can even show you how soros used his funding of hate groups over the years to try to influence the election in a soft coup via a "color revolution" (term has nothing to do w/ race) like he's done in other countries. The information can be found everywhere and is publicly available yet no one does any research or reports on it. Why isn't everyone reporting on the fact that the DNC's primary funder has openly stated that his goal is to devalue US currency to create a "fairer world". The real reason is he just wants to short the dollar the way he fucked the UK and make more money.
Why isn't there constant reporting on the DNC getting funded by a guy out to wreck our economy. It never ceases to amaze how Social Justice constantly gets used as a smoke screen to manipulate half awake idiots.
What makes everything truly sickening is that Soros is an admitted and unapologetic Nazi collaborator. That barely ever gets a mention either. It's easy enough to search and find the vids of old interviews from the 90s verifying all of this on youtube. Let me know if you haven't seen them or need help finding em.
OK, I am confusing myself - we have the HRC server - which was passed around more than the joint on The 70's show, we have the Seth Rich DNC downloads, and we have the Podesta hacks. So, 3 separate situations, correct?
The NDC docs showed no signs of tampering with metadata, but the Podesta hacks had inserted the founder of the KGB, right? That CAN'T be the source of these 12 indictments.
Soros NOW claims that he worked for the Nazis in order to SAVE other Jews. Before he claimed, "If I didn't do it, someone else would have, and I'd be dead." Cockroaches, to their credit, know how to survive.
Yeah, Soros was literally turning in Jewish families for a cut of the loot nazis were stealing from em. Guy is the lowest form of disgusting.
So, the article is contending that Trump is stupid because the image would have the RAM intact for viewing data logs. This is assuming that from the hack in what, somewhere between April-June of 2016, the machine was never booted or bounced - which means no software updates, no power outages over 45 minutes or so (if the machine even had a UPS - these Pakistani brothers didn't seem like they were the greatest IT people of all time), and never once did the server hang requiring a power cycle.
We know that Guiccifer2.0 did the hack, and that he did it from somewhere in Romania, supposedly. This article says that once, a hack came in and a different IP was attained, and was able to be linked directly to 2 specific GRU agents in a Russian building. (Think about that - how would we have THAT information, if we weren't hacking Russia? hehe - take THAT, Russkies!)
Following this:
So, Guccifer 2.0 DID the hack, but was created to spread disinfo about the hack, and to stop the official attribution that Russia did it? Read that again. Guccifer2.0 was created to obfuscate the official attribution that Russia did it. But Guccifer2.0 did it. That timeline is odd, is it not? Is the author confused, correct, or just lying? If the author is correct, that means the FBI, etc. KNEW the Russians were hacking the DNC long before Guccifer2.0 came along. So, back into 2015, we knew about the hacks, we knew it was Russians, Guccifer2.0 came along to try and throw FBI off the Russian tracks. That's probably the worst scenario out there, tbh, for the FBI's competence.
So, while yes, it IS possible that more data could be obtained from a non-powered off server, they also could move the server while it is running on a UPS (most servers have multiple power supplies so you can move them from UPS to UPS for as long as you need to keep it running), so I have to simply disagree that getting the physical server is as "stupid" as is claimed. It's just irrelevant.