"Exfiltration" is the technical term (taken from the military) for extracting information out of a computer system.
I don't have to "read between the lines." Crowdstrike said quite clearly - they have ZERO evidence of exfiltration.
I'm a tech guy. You can't take that amount of data out of a system over the internet - i.e. "a hack" - without leaving a trail. The only way that amount of data can be copied and released is for someone to physically put it on a device i.e. a USB memory device, and physically take it out.
I don't think it happened by accident. I have my theories about what did happen.
What I KNOW, as a computer professional working daily on remote systems internationally, is that there is ZERO evidence for the "Russian hacking" theory. My theory is confirmed - under oath in court - by the president of Crowdstrike.
If there was a hack and exfiltration, Crowdstrike and/or the NSA could show the log of the data stream with the IP address of the DNC server (A) as the source, and some IP address outside the DNC computer domain (B) as the destination, traceroute logs showing the data going from A to B. Then there are various tools (depending on the OS and OS version) that show the volume of data transferred between A and B during a session. I have included a link for tracert and a linke specific for the Windows OS to show how the volume of the transfer can be shown.
These tools exist for every system. If the data had been exfiltrated from the DNC, the evidence would have been easy to produce. Crowdstrike very specifically said - NO such evidence exists. Ergo: Russia did not hack the DNC and pull the data.
My bias is towards the truth and evidence. Both are on my side.
