A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack
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The metadata established several facts in this regard with granular precision: On the evening of July 5, 2016, 1,976 megabytes of data were downloaded from the DNC’s server. The operation took 87 seconds. This yields a transfer rate of 22.7 megabytes per second.
These statistics are matters of record and essential to disproving the hack theory. No Internet service provider, such as a hacker would have had to use in mid-2016, was capable of downloading data at this speed.
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Just some random article from 2014, look at the data points for transfers between data centers where anybody can rent servers:
Amazon "us-east" <-> "us-west" 210 mbit/s
Google "us-central" <-> "europe-west" 189 mbit/s
Rackspace "Dallas" <-> "North Virginia" 534 mbit/s
Softlayer "Dallas" <-> "Amsterdam" 61 mbit/s