EXCLUSIVE: Cyber expert says his team can't prove Mike Lindell's claims that China hacked election

[brooklynite]

Washington Times

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The cyber expert on the “red team” hired by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.

Mr. Lindell said he had 37 terabytes of “irrefutable” evidence that hackers, who he said were backed by China, broke into election systems and switched votes in favor of President Biden. The proof, he said, is visible in intercepted network data or “packet captures” that were collected by hackers and could be unencrypted to reveal that a cyberattack occurred and that votes were switched.

But cyber expert Josh Merritt, who is on the team hired by Mr. Lindell to interrogate the data for the symposium, told The Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyber incursion by China.

“So our team said, we’re not going to say that this is legitimate if we don’t have confidence in the information,” Mr. Merritt said on Wednesday, the second day of the symposium.

[gab13by13]

1. How stupid was this symposium?

The my pillow guy just gave more evidence to Dominion in its law suit.

[brooklynite]

2. More to the point, it's given Dominion 50 more people to sue.

[gab13by13]

4. You know I have this thought,

the way that the GQP projects everything it makes me believe that Dominion is the only honest company out there.

What about ES&S machines where there were anomalies in Maine, Kentucky, Florida?

[obamanut2012]

8. I thought that, too

That was basically a "casual depo."

[exboyfil]

3. I want my $5M

He had offered $5 million to any in-person attendee who can disprove his claims. The offer is no longer on the table, Mr. Merritt said.

[ck4829]

5. A whole symposium filled with people with all their knowledge of "hacking" from too much TV

[Happy Hoosier]

22. Cybersecurity is a field filled with charlatans.

Until recently there wasn't a lot of formal training in it. Training was through experience. Hell even Ghouliani was hawking his services as a "cybersecurity consultant" and that mam can barely find the power button on a computer.

[lindysalsagal]

6. ....because the Chinese wanted Biden? Who knows everything Obama knew???

Their lies don't even make sense.

[OAITW r.2.0]

19. If anything, China would have been motivated to flip votes to Trump.

Having that North Korean loving buffoon in office for another 4 years would have been in China's best interests. Trump was doing his best to destroy alliances in Europe and SE Asia.

[lindysalsagal]

21. Exactly. He was a terrific de-stabilizer, and cost us so much in every way.

[struggle4progress]

7. I'm worried they're magnetizing our voting machines using microchips implanted by space aliens

through the fluoridated drinking water and vaccine mandates!

[obamanut2012]

9. Wrong!!!!!!!

They are hidden in the nose wire of masks... and in the ear straps for masks that don't have nose wires.

Yes, I heard this from someone.

[Maeve]

20. You forgot the Jewish space lasers!

[Champp]

10. "To Hell with that fact and truth shit. We vow to keep on lying." - Republicans

[colsohlibgal]

11. He Is Mentally Ill

Pre Social Media he would have been in a mental facility years ago

[kimbutgar]

15. All those drugs he took destroyed his prefrontal cortex and he can't think critically anymore

So a scam artist liar TFG brainwashed him in the cult. I don’t think things will end well for Lindell.

[spanone]

12. I'm Shocked!!!!!

[elias7]

13. He needs to just shut up already

The damage he is doing…

[WestMichRad]

14. They don't have to prove it

Doesn’t matter to them that it’s all horseshit. They just need to keep making the allegations that votes were stolen, to feed the ongoing grift and efforts to restrict voting rights in red states. As they’ve already shown, it’s reaping big benefits for them.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. Well, until Dominion wins their lawsuits anyway. NT

[bucolic_frolic]

16. What's the world coming to? Lawyers, accountants, cyber kings will all say anything you want

until it comes time to prove something in court, or in public that might damage their own reputation and end their credibility and career.

World's going to hell in a handbasket when you can't even find a crooked hacker!

[SergeStorms]

17. He'll keep looking....

until he finds someone who is willing to lie about it, and who might be able to manipulate the data so it will show something of interest.

They can't give up and stop the lie. To abandon the lie would mean total, unconditional defeat. MF45 will never never admit defeat. That would mean the total destruction of him, and everything he's ever done.

I'm all for that, but he's gone "all in" on The Big Lie, and his ego couldn't stand exposure as the lying, cheating, morally bankrupt piece of crap he truly is.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. He doesn't have "37 terabytes" of anything.

That sounds like someone who doesn't really understand what a terabyte is and are just throwing out an impressive number.

There are literally millions of reasons to doubt Lindell's word on anything.
See how that works?