[monocasa]

Political connectedness exists on many spectrums other than the usual Red vs Blue. An interesting one you can see from the outside (that might not have anything to do here, it's just an example) is CIA vs NSA. You can see Nancy Pelosi's statements back that look like "we've always been at war with East Asia" and "we've never been at war with East Asia" wrt to the intelligence apparatus depending on which agency screwed up.

And Dmitri Alperovitch seems to see the shadows of the Russian political establishment everywhere he looks, though, which makes Crowdstrike an... interesting choice for that work.

Edit: added the top paragraph.

[tptacek]

All available evidence from credible sources seems to back up Crowdstrike's attribution. I'm sure you can find a countervailing argument or two from some credible source, but, to say the least, it does not look like Crowdstrike took a flyer on this.

I don't think the Russia investigation has thing #1 to do with Crowdstrike's IPO or what their business is like, though. That's much simpler: EDR is the new antivirus, antivirus has historically been one of the most lucrative enterprise technology products (to say nothing of security products), and Crowdstrike has a commanding share of the EDR market.

[monocasa]

You also have a former UK ambassador saying "the DNC wasn't hacked. I was part of the process of exfiltrating the files from the DNC".

And I think a general willingness to parrot establishment rhetoric is part of why they're as big as they are.

[tptacek]

Well, if the "former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan" says so, who am I to tell you to stop reading Infowars?

[monocasa]

I mean, yeah, the former ambassador who lost his job for having too much integrity to play the established game says "hey, the public record here isn't right, and I know because I was one of the players. Here's the timeline that lines up exactly with what happened and my previously published schedule", and the reaction is either not mentioning him at all, or saying the equivalent of "lol, idk, fuck that guy I guess", then yeah I'm going to give some respect to what he says.