Guccifer 2.0 - Game Over

Some new videos worth checking out:

The first of these gives a good recap of some of the technical evidence that has come out this year. The second is Redacted Tonight, featuring comedian Lee Camp, covering the memos from VIPS members and the recent article that featured in The Nation.

I had been promising a positive, up-beat article, something more uplifting than bashing the writers that have been assailing Patrick Lawrence's article in The Nation lately, so, I've posted one covering all the good things that have happened lately, aptly titled "Thank You!"

There are more things I'm working on but the element of surprise would be ruined if I gave details out at this stage, so for strategic purposes, I'll give more details when those are complete (some time in the next couple of weeks).

You will also likely hear more from other parties in the very near future but I can't say how/when that will occur as it's not really a process that concerns me directly or that I have any direct involvement in.

Have cleaned up the section regarding Warren Flood and improved quality in a few other areas thanks to some helpful advice and healthy criticism recently received.

I can at least now say that, after 173 days since the initial discovery, the deliberate placement of the "Russian fingerprints" has now made it into the mainstream:

Thank you to Skip Folden, Patrick Lawrence & all VIPS members for helping to get this information to the surface.
Thanks also to The Nation & Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) for reporting on this.

h/t: u/tvor_22, whose analysis of RSIDs helped validate the deliberate process used to taint the documents..

Regardless of any download speeds achievable on the Internet today, the following points still apply::

1) The speeds observed are most consistent with USB2.0 transfer speeds.
2) There are FAT filesystem anomalies in the files (such as you'd get from moving files to a USB stick)
3) The timestamps remained persistently in the Eastern timezone.

I've posted a new article up titled "Guccifer 2.0 - Six Months In" that summarizes what has been discovered so far and covers topics including Forensicator, VIPS interest & memos, timestamp/meta-data integrity considerations, the various types of attacks being used to try to undermine reporting on the new discoveries (and how to handle them), various topics that should not be conflated with the Guccifer 2.0 persona (because such links aren't substantiated at all) and more.

There's a good video on YouTube via 'BlackPilled' that gives an overview of quite a few of the things covered on this site in a way that makes the information covered very easy to process, it may be handy for those that don't want to have to read a lot to get a good general overview of what is a complicated, multi-faceted subject:

Obligatory "Flood-Innocence" Warning:
For those that aren't aware, Flood's name may be more of a hint at where a laptop used by Guccifer 2.0 could have come from than actually being the identity of the perpetrator, it's worth noting that the only place where his name should have been used in conjunction with company name GSA is at the White House - and that would have been back in 2010-2011.

I may be writing a few articles elsewhere soon about non-Guccifer 2.0 related topics.

The Forensicator's analysis has opened eyes, got people asking questions and several people have been replicating/validating (and trying to challenge) the findings. This, in turn, has given people more confidence on this topic..

Some recent videos covering this have come from H. A. Goodman and Tim Black (who discuss the findings on "No Sell Outs") as well as Rick Amato's Politics & Profit.

The site that first broke the news was, of course, Disobedient Media, an independent media outlet I personally witnessed have several staff work extremely hard, some losing sleep on multiple nights, just to make sure their reporting was concise and valid. - I can't thank them enough for giving Forensicator's analysis the coverage it deserved and perservering with a technical analysis that was essential for them to understand in order to report on it properly.

Some sites ran with it as-is and gave attribution without adding spin or unrelated topics into the equation. ZeroHedge was a good example of doing that well.

Unfortunately, there were many versions of the story that added partisan spin or engaged in baseless speculation about Seth Rich despite us cautioning against it!. - We cautioned against it for a good reason and by not heeding our advice, those that engaged in it did the opposite of helping get justice for Seth.

Introducing: The Forensicator and the Digital Forensic Analysis of Guccifer 2's NGP-VAN Archive

As some of you may know, over the past few weeks I've been in contact with someone who has been working on a digital forensics analysis of the NGP-VAN archive that was released by Guccifer 2.0 in September of 2016.

For those that can, please validate (or challenge, where relevant) the findings.

Sources, contacts, followers & supporters:
Without the invaluable help & support I've had from many of you my efforts here would mean absolutely nothing and I would be invisible. Please know I really appreciate your help and that I don't take it for granted. Thank you to all of you for everything you do.

Yesterday, I also made a statement asserting that Shawn Henry and Dmitri Alperovitch are very likely behind Guccifer 2.0 or are connected to those behind the persona. - I've been sat with their names for over 2 months and considering the Washington Post article analyzed in the article above, it's hard, from my perspective and with all the research I've done over the last 6 months to see how it could have really been carried out by anyone else.

I'm currently working on an article covering deception, propaganda, manipulation & perception management (titled "Information Warfare & The Perception Management Industry"), once this is published, I will move on to publishing another new article in relation to further evidence that has been discovered.

New Disobedient Media Article
For any that haven't seen it yet, Disobedient Media have a new article out: "Did Guccifer 2.0 Fake “Russian Fingerprints?" and even if you don't want to read an article that covers the stuff I've been doing (understandable as you hear enough of that from me directly!!), you might want to check them out anyway as they've covered various topics that are likely to be of interest to quite a few people that visit this site.

In light of some very fair observations made in the article highlighted above, I have made some changes to the "Evidence of Intent" articles and references to them across the site so that the titles are now more specific to the scope of what the evidence there actually covers.

The "new" NGP-VAN archive going around - seems to be bloated by 400Mb through duplication (there are folders and archives of the same content within the new archive).

I did wonder if there was anything I might have missed so I also used UltraCompare on the two different directories (with all archives extracted) and that only resulted in discovery of the 4 unique files (the 'lock' files I'd mentioned on Twitter recently) which account for 367 bytes of the 400Mb increase.

NOTE: I was unaware of the source of this new archive until after I'd already initially inspected and commented on it. I will continue to refrain from offering any public opinion on the source and will just focus on information.

Relevant PSA: If you find a USB stick (as was claimed regarding the source of the new archive), consider the risks of malware. If you find it conveniently where you're the most likely person to discover it (eg. discarded on your driveway, outside your house, etc), be weary that it could have malware on it with you as the intended victim, it's a common method of infiltration because of human nature, people are curious and lot of people end up plugging it in (often to their main computer) to have a sneak peek at what's on it.

Having checked through Guccifer 2's first forty documents allegedly hacked from the DNC, @jimmysllama has discovered that there may be a problem with the premise they're from the DNC. - For more details check out the post at: https://jimmysllama.com/2017/05/28/9867/

Guccifer 2.0, The DCCC Voter Turnout Model & Aaron Nevins - More DM Manipulations!?

Hannibal Moot of BullTruth magazine has been applying some well-placed skepticism to more DMs that have been published recently. - It turns out that the HelloFLA DMs exhibit the exact same anomaly that applied to Robbin Young's DMs.

UPDATE: I've attempted to contact HelloFLA via DMs to inquire about the anomaly observed, about the 250Mb and 2.5Gb discrepancies in reporting (250Mb was what he'd reported in the past but the reports that came out asynchronously across the MSM recently state 2.5Gb) & also about the exclusivity of the data in the DCCC documents (as it looks like most of it was based on data already available to both parties, so the notion of the turnout model, etc. being worth millions is highly questionable). (It's also far more relevant to congressional races than to the general election).

Hannibal Moot has confirmed over Twitter that he has also contacted HelloFLA since discovering the anomalies.

If someone throws a name at you as being an identity behind Guccifer 2.0, ask whether they would have had access and the capabilities demonstrated - not many will fit all 3.

UPDATES (August 28th, 2017)