[Peace-discuss] Crowdstrike admits they have no evidence to back Russiagate accusations

[J.B. Nicholson]

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sw7TbmfN8 -- Aaron Maté reports on the 
latest testimony Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry (14m 6s)

Article: 
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/05/11/bombshell-crowdstrike-admits-no-evidence-russia-stole-emails-from-dnc-server/ 
reads:

> Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of
> Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: “We did not have concrete evidence.”
> 
> In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said
> that “we did not have concrete evidence” that alleged Russian hackers actually
> took the emails from DNC servers. “There’s circumstantial evidence, but no
> evidence that they were actually exfiltrated,” Henry said.
> 
> Aaron Maté breaks down Henry’s testimony and why it adds new doubt about the core
> allegation at the heart of Russiagate.

and has a pointer including the aforementioned video.

Crowdstrike is the source for the ongoing and widely-repeated but utterly false 
allegations that the DNC emails were exfiltrated by Russians, and that this is how 
WikiLeaks got their copy of that data. The Democrats have been using this story to 
help explain away Hillary Clinton's remarkable second loss to a first-time 
presidential candidate (first time Barack Obama, this time Donald Trump). It turns 
out that Russiagate story after Russiagate story falls apart on analysis undermining 
the entire baseless conspiracy theory. Now Crowdstrike has apparently shifted from 
pushing the Russiagate narrative to admitting that they "did not have concrete 
evidence" to back up their own earlier claims when giving Congressional testimony.

In a somewhat related story, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is 
undergoing a push to adopt Crowdstrike's software across all UIUC-owned computers. 
This might even be a University-wide push encompassing all computers owned by any of 
the UI campuses. The software purports to analyze the activity on a computer on which 
the Crowdstrike software is installed to predict, stymie, and notify administrators 
about behavior characterized (by Crowdstrike) as malicious. This will be done by 
monitoring the computer's activity (storage activity, network activity, and more), 
and reporting on such activity to a central database maintained by Crowdstrike. This 
was described in https://answers.illinois.edu/93944 (among other documents on 
answers.illinois.edu) and 
https://techservices.illinois.edu/services/endpoint-security-crowdstrike/details (an 
overview of the service).