[Cacti]

This is an interesting analysis, but determining download speeds (and the resulting conclusions about how the data was moved about) from zip file metadata is still basically guesswork. You have to make a number of assumptions for this to work out, and yes, they are reasonable assumptions, I guess, but they are still assumptions.

I would also point out that this article is mostly revolving around whether _some_ portion of the DNC emails were purposefully leaked, but it doesn't say much at all about the remaining incidents and data. It certainly doesn't disprove the "russia story."

[thomasko]

Additionally the claims they make about timezones are also only based on the difference of timestamps. Eg they see that the difference between 7z (Unix timestamps thus UTC) and RAR3 (MS-DOS localtime) is three hours. The way they then conclude it's Eastern time is very flimsy.

In fact that that alle files, even those in rar-files were all modified on the same time, convinces me more that the timestamps have nothing to do with the transmission. But that someone altered them after the hack, or that but more unlikely is that all the timestamps are still untouched and exactly on how they were on the DNC server

[swiley]

Eastern time is 4 hours (and at the time, probably 5) from UTC. 3 hours is somewhere in the ocean.