If The Russians Engineered a Trump Victory

[David Horn]

(06-15-2017, 02:25 AM)Galen Wrote:

(06-14-2017, 01:54 PM)David Horn Wrote: Sophisticated hacking tools leave unique traces that an organization like the NSA can find and decypher.  I doubt some flunky insider could pull that off.

Actually I would expect an insider to have much better odds since once you have access to the actual hardware the job gets much easier.  For the average desktop I would boot up something like Knoppix and mount the drive with using the noatime and ro options and then go fishing.  Store what I wanted on the encrypted USB stick that I booted Knoppix with and be done with it.  Unless someone was watching they would never know what happened.  The people who own the machine would never know so there is no reason to think the NSA would since nothing goes over the net and the filesystem never actually changes.

The FBI does extensive forensic analysis of computers, and they had this one in hand.  The NSA does as well, though they were not involved with the DNC box(es).  I wouldn't count on getting in and out unnoticed ... not in the long run.