Mike Lindell lashes out as cyber expert demands $5M reward for debunking election data

[marmar]

(Salon) MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is scrambling to defend his claims of election fraud after a cybersecurity expert demanded his cut of the $5 million reward Lindell had promised to anyone who could disprove the accuracy of his alleged election data.

Bill Alderson is a longtime cybersecurity professional specializing in packet captures — the exact type of data Lindell claimed to be in possession of — and attended the pillow maven's "cyber symposium out of a legitimate desire to "discover the truth." A longtime Republican, Alderson said he supported Donald Trump in 2020 and told Lindell when he was invited to the event, "I'd love to prove you right."

Only, he couldn't.

Lindell has long claimed to be in possession of a large set of network data from the 2020 election, saved as packet captures, or .pcap files. He's even claimed that it contained every vote cast last November.

Not so, says Alderson. It took roughly 45 minutes for him to see that the data given to him and the dozens of other experts in attendance was bunk — not only did it fail to prove anything about the accuracy of the 2020 election, but the files weren't even in the right format. ............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/08/18/mike-lindell-lashes-out-as-cyber-expert-demands-5m-reward-for-debunking-election-data/

[Ohio Joe]

1. "but the files weren't even in the right format"

Heh, too funny

[Merlot]

2. Is any one asking how lindell got those files?

If they were legit, it would be an interesting question, possibly with some legal ramifications.

[cayugafalls]

6. Probably not legit. According to some, the source was a known con man.

How a Reno casino con man duped the CIA and pulled one of the ‘most dangerous hoaxes’ in American history

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/reno-casino-conman-pulled-greatest-hoax-american-history

And From Wikipedia:

Dennis Lee Montgomery (born 1953) is an American software designer and former medical technician who sold to federal officials computer programs he claimed would decode secret Al-Qaeda messages hidden in Al Jazeera broadcasts and identify terrorists based on Predator drone videos.[1] A 2010 Playboy investigation called Montgomery "The man who conned the Pentagon", saying he won millions in federal contracts for his supposed terrorist-exposing intelligence software.[2] The software was later reported to have been an elaborate hoax and Montgomery's former lawyer called him a "con artist" and "habitual liar engaged in fraud".

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As part of the attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election, The American Report published stories in which Montgomery claimed a supercomputer called the Hammer, running software called Scorecard, was used to steal votes from Trump.[26] Montgomery's claims were repeated by Mike Lindell[27] and Sidney Powell.[28] Christopher Krebs, then the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, characterized the claims as "nonsense" and a "hoax".[29]

At Lindell's August 2021 cyber symposium about the 2020 election, his staff confirmed Montgomery was Lindell's source for data about the election.

[SarcasticSatyr]

3. Another lawsuit coming for "Loony" Lindell ....

...

[Chainfire]

4. The check is in the mail.

Mike won't be sweating a few million after Dominion is finished with him.

[Blue Owl]

5. Lindell is foamenting nonsense

[Grokenstein]

7. "How come no one's come forward to claim the reward?"

(someone comes forward to claim it)
"NO WAIT"

[reality1]

8. Love this!

Pay up Mike

[amb123]

9. Brutal!

"I'm not sure what's wrong with Mike," [Bill] Alderson said. "He's like those desperate Afghanis clinging to the side of a C17 as it tries to take off from the Kabul airport."

"Let's just hope he's able to jump before he falls to his death."

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Too bad pillow humper

Don't make bets you can't pay.

[live love laugh]

11. Why doesn't he just hold another fraudulent symposium to raise money?