[Marxism] More on Interpol Report

["Anthony Boynton" <anthony.boynton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a link to a good article about the Interpol report on the
computers alleged to have been taken from the bombed camp of
assasinated FARC leader Raul Reyes in Ecuador.

http://www.worldpress.org/link.cfm?http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/

The website is Venezuelanalysis.com and the article is title
"Venezuela Dismisses Interpol Presentation, Computer Experts Question
Report's Reliability", by Gregory Wilpert.

One interesting fact about the Interpol report noted at the end of the
excerpt below is that over 4,000 files in the computer had FUTURE
dates, i.e. dates after the computers were allegedly removed from
Reyes camp which had been destroyed by bombs.

The shameless Interpol report nevertheless did everything it could to
spin the evidence in favor of the Colombian government's assertions
that the computers belonged to Reyes and have not been tampered with.

The reason is clear: these computers are being used to prepare
Colombian public opinion for war with Venezuela. If you doubt this
check out the article on this link from Semana magazine

http://www.semana.com/wf_InfoArticulo.aspx?idArt=111918

Excerpt from "Venezuela Dismisses Interpol Presentation, Computer
Experts Question Report's Reliability" follows.

Anthony

"... Computer science professor Emilio Hernandez of the Simon Bolivar
University in Venezuela said to Venezuelan state radio station RNV
that Interpol failed to "explain that it is perfectly feasible to
change files and change their dates." That is, in the two days between
the apprehension of the computer equipment and when it was turned over
to forensics experts, when standard practices for preserving evidence
were not observed, it could have been altered without such alterations
being detectable.

"Similarly, computer expert Sascha Meinrath, who is President of the
Acorn Active Media Foundation, points out that the reason Interpol
says it "found no evidence of tampering," rather than that "there was
no tampering" is because Interpol "cannot determine whether or not
this happened, they can only look for evidence of the tampering.  A
smart computer administrator can reset a computer's internal clocks
and make changes that would be indiscernible from actual use.  As
paragraphs 92-96 [of the Interpol report] make clear, this isn't
particularly hard to do."

"The Interpol report notes that "one laptop computer (exhibit 28) and
the two seized external hard disks (exhibits 30 and 31) contained
files with erroneous date stamps, set in the future." According to
Meinrath, this fact alone puts into question whether the date stamps
set in the past are accurate (before March 1, when the FARC camp was
raided).

"The report states that over 4,000 out of nearly 300,000 files had
date stamps set after March 3, 2008, when the files were turned over
to Colombian police forensics.

"One of Germany's main computer webzines, heise.de, also questioned
the Interpol analysis, quoting a German forensics specialist, who
said, "I, as a forensic scientist, would not be able to preclude that
in a clearly re-started computer no complete image file was
transferred that has consistent time-stamps, but which also has
manipulated files." "I am very doubtful whether this [Interpol]
analysis can be held up in a court of law," he added."

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