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First, VIPS concluded that the DNC data were not hacked by the Russians or anyone else accessing the server over the internet. Instead, the data were downloaded by means of a thumb drive or similar portable storage device physically attached to the DNC server....

This is the weakness in the VIPS analysis. If you are going to copy an entire directory or directories containing files, doing so file by file is not the way. Instead, you would create an archive file (zip, tar, rar) and copy that, removing the original when done. When later expanding the archive, the file creation dates would look like a high speed transfer (22.7 megabytes per second).

This doesn't happen on Unix/Linux based systems. It happens on Windows if you are not careful.

If you are going to copy an entire directory or directories containing files, doing so file by file is not the way. Instead, you would create an archive file (zip, tar, rar) and copy that, removing the original when done. When later expanding the archive, the file creation dates would look like a high speed transfer (22.7 megabytes per second).

I'm not sure how file creation dates are germane. I've always assumed with the DNC was that the sheer volume of data transferred made it unlikely that it was done remotely. Just 10 GB would take at least 14 hours to Xfer (if I'm reading it right). Fourteen hours is a LOT of time for something like that NOT to be noticed. Server slowdown, etc etc. Whereas copying it over a thumbdrive would take about 2 or 3 minutes.

Not true at all...

I have moved considerable amounts of data from one drive to another or from a drive to a cloud drive and did not use .zip or any other software to compress it or otherwise manipulate it. We are talking multiple gigabytes of multi formatted files from pictures documents, all of it

The files all moved successfully from one drive to another and they work flawlessly

I have also use >zip to move a cluster of files from a cloud drive to a system based drive and the expanded the zip back into files

What Binney said was the time for the transfer and the number of files cannot be done over a network link as the data speed needed to so so is not available given the payload and the time to transfer. Only when a flash drive is plugged in as a locally accessible device can that speed as shown in the meta data be achieved, zipped or not

Game over

And a PS.

I have transferred drive contents of multi gigabytes to a cloud drive in their native format and that much data in that little time does not happen, I have been in the computing business for 46 years and I am certified on Unix/Linux and others