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Re:Assange offered pardon if he co-operated over email leak,... by einpoklum on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:19PM (#22371206)
They can't examine anything, because AFAIK the servers were physically destroyed before official US authorities got to them. They relied on CrowdStrike's analysis.
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Re:Assange offered pardon if he co-operated over email leak,... by crunchatized on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:09PM (#22371873)
Yeah, Comey did say in 2017 that they could only get CrowdStrike to hand over their analysis, and never got direct access to the machines.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03...

But I can't find anything about physical destruction, CrowdStrike claims to only have ever had images of the systems.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

In 2018, the DNC said β€œThe FBI was given images of servers, forensic copies, as well as a host of other forensic information we collected from our systems.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-missing-dnc-server-is-n...

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Re:Assange offered pardon if he co-operated over email leak,... by einpoklum on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:05AM (#22373966)
Maybe they were overwritten rather than literally destroyed. i.e. any VMs were destroyed and so on. Thanks for the links.
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