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Showing Original Post only (View all)EXCLUSIVE: Cyber expert says his team can't prove Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked election [View all]
Washington TimesSIOUX FALLS, S.D. The cyber expert on the red team hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.
Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of irrefutable evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or packet captures that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched.
But cyber expert Josh Merritt, who is on the team hired by Mr. Lindell to interrogate the data for the symposium, told The Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyber incursion by China.
So our team said, were not going to say that this is legitimate if we dont have confidence in the information, Mr. Merritt said on Wednesday, the second day of the symposium.
Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of irrefutable evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or packet captures that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched.
But cyber expert Josh Merritt, who is on the team hired by Mr. Lindell to interrogate the data for the symposium, told The Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyber incursion by China.
So our team said, were not going to say that this is legitimate if we dont have confidence in the information, Mr. Merritt said on Wednesday, the second day of the symposium.
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EXCLUSIVE: Cyber expert says his team can't prove Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked election [View all]
brooklynite
Aug 2021
OP
A whole symposium filled with people with all their knowledge of "hacking" from too much TV
ck4829
Aug 2021
#5
Exactly. He was a terrific de-stabilizer, and cost us so much in every way.
lindysalsagal
Aug 2021
#21
I'm worried they're magnetizing our voting machines using microchips implanted by space aliens
struggle4progress
Aug 2021
#7
All those drugs he took destroyed his prefrontal cortex and he can't think critically anymore
kimbutgar
Aug 2021
#15
What's the world coming to? Lawyers, accountants, cyber kings will all say anything you want
bucolic_frolic
Aug 2021
#16