I cannot believe Trump has come out and denied that US Intelligence knows what it is doing and he believes the guy who encourages people to steal information and send to his site over the CIA... Bewildering.
But the claim that US Intelligence can't possibly know where the hacks come from and it could have been someone in New Jersey shows a complete lack of knowledge of how Networks work. Every global IP address is unique. This global IP address is logged by servers. It is the equivalent of a fingerprint. It can also be tracked down.
A network has its own set of local ips that it dishes out to its clients. It keeps track of what IPs it has given out to avoid any duplicates. A duplicate IP on a network causes networks to fail.
Comcast dishes out IPs to its clients. It keeps track of who gets what. The customer then uses the Comcast moden/router to dish out IPs to their devices.
Comcast gets an IP from its service provider who probably also has a service provider. Just like Verizon and other internet service providers do. They all have to get the connections to the global internet somehow.
The internet is a network of networks.
Data moves across the networks. Every movement of data includes a source IP and a destination IP in its tags. That's how data finds its way around.
This tag is LOGGED.
Now some might say that proxy's can hide the IP. Yeah it replaces the IP with a proxy IP. Proxy IPs are known. They also can be blocked. Just set up a vbulletin forum on a server and then go to the vbulletin.org site and download a mod that blocks all proxy visitors. Its easy.
You can also get a court order and force the Proxy to reveal the actual IP of an intrusion. Or get a government to do so if willing.
The fact is traffic on the internet is trackable. And its really ridiculous we have an idiot going after the intelligence community like this. Claiming that no one can know where the attacks came from. 70 year old technical dunces should just keep their mouths shut about things they know nothing about.
