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Packets are relayed over many nodes and jumps between the origin and the recipient.
Any of these relays or networks in between are able to capture packets which pass through.
Just having 100 Gorillabytes of packet captures means nothing on its own since packets are being sent constantly back and forth over the internet.
The fact that you are able to read this message means you are receiving packets in real time.
Since packets are sent back and forth constantly with any amount of jumps or networks in between, anybody along the route could theoretically capture the packets holding your online banking password and steal your money.
Now why isn’t everyone’s online bank account getting hacked every day by people who get the smart idea to run packet capturing software?
TLS, or Transfer Layer Security, encrypts your data before sending it over the network.
If anybody captures your packets while youre using TLS, then they just see a garbled mess.
Only the recipient and sender of the packet will know what the packet contains if TLS is used.
Now let’s think for a second about Mike Lindell’s PCAPs.
If Mike Lindell has PCAPs that prove there was a cyber operation that targeted the election networks, then first we need to think about how he got the PCAPs.
If we assume TLS was enabled, then Mike Lindell would only be able to get intelligible PCAPs if the person logging the packets was either the sender, receiver, or cracked the encryption of the packets.

If Mike’s team was able to crack TLS then we will have a major problem for anybody who uses the internet.

There are man-in-the-middle techniques which could grab packets thought to be end-to-end encrypted but very few groups are in position to do so. (see: nsa, cloudflare, etc).
Now let’s assume that the sender/receiver of the packets didn’t use TLS.

If Mike’s team was able to run the packet capturing mechanism somewhere along the network routes that the election data took, and TLS was not enabled, then we can essentially conclude that

He. Has. It. All.
The barrier to entry to use TLS is very low. It takes but a minute to enable on a server or software, and takes seconds as an end-user (https is TLS, http isnt).
If election management software sent packets over the internet without at least enabling TLS, then that indicates that they are careless at implementing security at the least, and might even be potentially malicious.
I have not seen Mike Lindells PCAPs and don’t know the circumstances and data he has, but this could potentially be HUGE if he is able to verify and properly analyze what happened on the networks on election night.
Forwarded from Kathy Dannenberg
Packets consist of two portions: the header and the payload. The header contains information about the packet, such as its origin and destination IP addresses (an IP address is like a computer's mailing address). The payload is the actual data
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There is about an hour until McAfee’s drop is released.
No idea if it is a marketing campaign for some product or an actual deadman switch drop.

Doesnt hurt to watch though, and he was kind enough to set the countdown to a relatively close date and time so we dont need to get too involved in speculation.
I was invited to speak at some event in Vegas in the third week of October.
I have not accepted the invite yet, though I probably will.
Waiting to see what the format is before I accept.
I am not involved in the McAfee drop that is coming up. I just saw it and felt it was curious enough to post.

I have no idea what it is going to be released.
Will be disappointing if it is just an NFT timesale or something dumb like that.
NFT are (basically) digital collectibles. They are bought and sold generally with crypto coin.
It’s a bit more complicated, but that is the general gist of it.

If you have too much money and dont know where to spend it, NFT might be up your alley.
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They are working on it.