Mike Lindell’s Packet Capture Is Unencrypted, Meaningless List Of Clothing Manufacturers, But He’s Still Looking To Top Elvis

Expect the stories about Mike Lindell’s stolen election extravaganza at the Corn Palace in Sioux Falls, August 10-12 to ramp up from here on out. This is Lindell’s piece de resistance, this cyber symposium. Lindell has been promising that it will attract as much attention as Elvis Presley’s concert from Hawaii, watched by one billion people, worldwide. Seriously. You think I can make stuff like this up? Salon:

Lindell then made an ambitious prediction: His August event will attract more eyeballs than Elvis Presley’s “Aloha From Hawaii” concert, which was beamed around the world by satellite on Jan. 14, 1973, and witnessed by a billion people.

“Elvis Presley in 1973,” Lindell reminisced. “Over a billion people watched that ‘Aloha From Hawaii’ because at that time, it was epic. This is going to be so important for the whole world to see — I’m hoping the word keeps spreading so that everybody at least tunes in,” he added.

A devoted Elvis fan, Lindell wasn’t shy about the prospect of upstaging the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Asked whether his event could really be bigger than the legendary Elvis concert — one of the first global satellite pay-per-view spectacles — Lindell expressed optimism. “I’m hoping it is. I just hope a lot of people see it,” adding earnestly that no matter your political party, by the final day of the gathering, the entire world will be convinced to “right the wrong” of the 2020 election.

“This is so important to the world. To the world!” Lindell added. “I believe that if we get the word out, it’s going be seen by — not millions. I’m hoping a billion, and I’ve used that correlation to Elvis. I am hoping that. I’m hoping that!”

What Lindell doesn’t seem to know is that there are plenty of suspicious minds right there in Sioux Falls. One of them, an honest to God cyber guy himself, Brian Linder, with a company called Check Points Media, one of the top ten cybersecurity companies on the planet, according to UC San Diego, poured cold water all over Lindell’s claims of having a packet capture of the entire election. Dakota News Now:

“A packet capture is basically eavesdropping on a computer network, it’s nothing more than that,” said Linder. “The ability to say, what conversations are happening between a device and another device on a network. What they’re going to do with it? Not too much, It’s encrypted. It can’t be trivially decrypted.”

A sample of the packet capture was released by Lindell.

“Experts looked at the so-called packet captures that he had. And in fact, it was not an encrypted packet capture at all,” said Linder. “As a matter of fact, it was an unencrypted stream of meaningless data that mentioned clothing manufacturers it had nothing to do with voting. So he claims to have a raw packet capture that’s encrypted. He doesn’t have that that’s absolutely a false claim based on the data he provided. Completely false.”

You remember the part of The Matrix where Cypher is eating a steak, that isn’t really there, but he moans ecstatically and says “ignorance is bliss” because to him it’s real? That’s where Lindell is at. He has so little knowledge about how all this works that he’s got himself convinced that it works the way he wants it to — or how the people he’s paid $25 Million to, according to Steve Bannon, tell him that things work.

Could an entire election be captured electronically?

“To intercept and packet capture all of an election, I think the way the New York Times described it, technically incoherent,” said Linder. “I cannot imagine a scenario where it could be pulled off at all.”

As for any cybersecurity experts attending the event, Linder has heard from his peers.

“No credible cybersecurity expert is going to attend this session. There is [ no way] a huge and very, very, very curious community who invests their lives in knowing this, would ever attend a session like this.

Lindell says that he’s talked with Governor Kristi Noem about the Cyber Symposium and has her full support. We reached out to the Governor’s Office on July 7th, asking if Noem will attend, and have not received a response.

Looks like Fox News is not the only entity that’s going to leave Lindell standing at the altar on the big day.

Proving him wrong is not what’s required to get the money. pic.twitter.com/4hstnRhaxM

— Jason (@skidz7) July 27, 2021

Let’s take a brief inventory of the situation, shall we?

1. Lindell said he’s going to do an evidence dump for the next three weeks. And we’ve heard that before, right?
2. This event is not open to the public, which is news to me. I thought that was the entire purpose of the event, when it was conceived. It could be that that was the idea, to invite the public and then nobody bought tickets. In all events, as we speak, the event is not open to the public.
3. Therefore, if you’re drooling over that $5 Million bounty, you won’t get it, unless you’re a bona fide cyber guy and you show up and refute Lindell’s data.
4. That would be easy enough, but as the cyber guy quoted here said, nobody credible is coming. Even with a carrot of five million large being dangled. Go figure.
5. We don’t even know if Kristi Noem is coming and that would have to be perceived as a slap in the face.
6. It’s wrong to mock a mentally ill person, but he is bringing this upon himself. Nobody can talk him off this ledge. A lot of people have tried.
7. As to proving that the data is “not valid data from the 2020 election” the man already said it was unrelated material about clothing manufacturers. That’s actually a step down from Lindell’s last packet capture, which was at least voter information from Pennsylvania. Granted, you could buy it from the state, but at least it was election related somehow. Clothing manufacturers? Oh, Mike.

So it’s just like Elvis sang, Mike: “You’re caught in a trap. You can’t let go.” Good luck with that worldwide audience of one billion.

Lindell is well on his way to becoming the first genuine martyr of the Cult of Trump. He couldn’t quit Trump and it cost him his entire fortune, not to mention his sanity. Expect ballads to be written and the elders to tell this story around the campfire to sleepy little MAGAs of the world to come.