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The Friday Read


HOW I WON $5 MILLION FROM THE MYPILLOW GUY AND SAVED DEMOCRACY

Mike Lindell dared anyone to disprove his claim that the 2020 election was
stolen. For this software forensics expert, it was almost too easy.



POLITICO illustration/Photos by AP, iStock, courtesy of Bob Zeidman

By Bob Zeidman

05/26/2023 04:30 AM EDT

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Bob Zeidman is the creator of the field of software forensics and the founder of
several successful high-tech Silicon Valley firms including Zeidman Consulting
and Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering. His latest venture is Good Beat
Poker, a new way to play and watch poker online. He is the author of textbooks
on engineering and intellectual property as well as award-winning screenplays
and novels. His latest novel is Animal Lab, an update of George Orwell’s Animal
Farm.

If you watch TV, especially conservative TV, you know Mike Lindell. He’s the guy
who comes on every 10 minutes or so to sell his pillows for “the best night’s
sleep in the whole wide world.” He’s also the guy who has sunk tens of millions
of dollars into supporting investigations and lawsuits that claim the 2020
presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.

And I just took him for $5 million.



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You may have read a little about it. In the summer of 2021, Lindell announced
that he was going to hold a “Cyber Symposium” in Sioux Falls, S.D., to release
data that proved that U.S. voting machines were hacked by China. He said he
would even pay $5 million to anyone who could disprove his data.

Right away, friends started calling to ask me if I was planning to go. After
all, I invented the field of software forensics, the science of analyzing
software source code for intellectual property infringement or theft. Still, I
wasn’t sure. There are a lot of experts that could analyze data. And no one in
their right mind would offer $5 million if the data wasn’t real and verified,
right? Anyway, the symposium ran three days — not nearly long enough to analyze
and verify any data.

But I’m also a tournament poker player. I love a good challenge. And as the
calls and emails kept coming in, I started to think, I should go, just to be
there when history was made. I voted for Trump twice. If Lindell’s data was
correct, maybe a presidential election would be overturned. I’d at least get to
meet some really interesting people. So I flew to Sioux Falls.

In the summer of 2021, Lindell announced that he was going to hold a “Cyber
Symposium” in Sioux Falls, S.D., to release data that proved U.S. voting
machines were hacked by China. | Bob Zeidman

At the symposium, I saw the competition, about 40 or 50 of them. Some were
highly qualified hackers and experienced cyber experts like me. Others were just
interested parties with some experience in information technology.

We gathered in two small rooms that looked like stark public-school classrooms.
After introducing ourselves, we began downloading Lindell’s Holy Grail — his
“proof of election fraud” that came from an unspecified source — which consisted
of seven files comprising over 23 gigabytes of data.




Two of the files were generic information about voting machines. Another file
was a meaningless one minute, 20 second silent video of a computer screen
showing some unknown program being debugged. A fourth file was a 23 gigabyte
binary file containing ones and zeroes, allegedly containing packet capture
data, or “PCAPs.”

If you’re not familiar with any of that language, packets are the small chunks
of information that are sent over a network like the Internet and then
reassembled at the receiving end as pictures of your grandkids or cute cat
movies from YouTube. PCAPs are records of those packets as they flew around a
network.

In numerous interviews, Lindell had claimed that his data showed packet captures
of votes flowing outside the U.S. to China where they were modified to switch
votes from Trump to Biden, and then sent back to U.S. voting machines.

We used a variety of forensic tools designed to understand and analyze PCAPs,
but found this mysterious file didn’t contain any of the 37 standard PCAP
formats. I even used the CodeSuite forensics tool I had developed to try to gain
any information from the file. Nada.

So I decided to focus on the three remaining files, which were simple text files
that could be opened up with any text editor like Notepad that comes
preinstalled on every Windows computer. The contents were text representations
of hex numbers, which are base 16 numbers used by computers as opposed to base
10 numbers, decimal, used by people.

I started with the ominously named file Chinese_SourceIP_HEX.txt. Having
programmed computers for about 50 years, I recognized that each of these hex
numbers seemed to represent a code for alphanumeric characters known as ASCII
code. So I took a software tool I’d written years ago and ran this text file
through it to turn the text representation of numbers into actual numbers.

Next, I opened the resulting file in the Notepad text editor. Sure enough, I saw
letters and numbers representing some other kind of code — Rich Text Format
code, a very old and simple way of coding word processor documents. (It turns
out that it’s sometimes good to be old, wise, and experienced like me.)

I opened this converted file with Microsoft Word and… voila... a table with
hundreds of rows of numbers appeared — numbers that looked like IP addresses
(that is, the numbers associated with devices connected to a network).


58.250.125.174
7
49.7.20.81
7
58.53.128.88
7
39.103.227.160
7
49.7.21.119
7


With no other information, they were about as meaningful as a list of random
words. At that point, it was obvious that the data in these text files were not
anything related to the 2020 election. That’s when I knew I had stumbled onto
the key. Not the key to showing election fraud, but the key to showing Lindell’s
nonsense.

I repeated the same process on the other text files and found even stranger
stuff. These files were also obfuscated word processor documents, but contained
thousands of lines of gibberish — nothing more than random characters and
numbers.

My eureka moment had arrived. While everyone else was looking at the sky, I had
found the golden ticket on the ground; while they were trying to find packet
data in the files, the truth was that it wasn’t packet data at all. I said
something out loud like, “I’m going to take this back to my hotel room and work
on it there,” to no one in particular. I quietly and deliberately packed up my
laptop and strolled out of the room and out of the venue. On the way back to the
hotel, I called my wife. “Start thinking about what you want to do with 5
million dollars,” I told her.


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Back in my room, I wrote up my report and registered a copy online with the U.S.
Copyright Office as proof that I had written it by the contest deadline. Just in
case.

But Lindell’s game wasn’t over yet. The next day, a little before noon, I
strolled into the cyber workroom and found everyone still going at it. It turns
out there was more data to analyze — Lindell had given us about 50 gigabytes of
additional data to plow through. There were four new files, but when I looked at
them, they were essentially the same types as the first day’s files except with
a spreadsheet containing 121,128 lines of generic information about internet
service providers around the world plus their locations, their latitudes and
longitudes, their IP addresses, and other miscellaneous information. I
determined that nothing in the file was related to the 2020 presidential
election, and wondered what my competitors were seeing.

Then came another giant batch of 509 files, comprising many more gigabytes. This
was how Lindell planned to keep anyone from winning the challenge, I figured.
Just inundate us with files and not nearly enough time to analyze them. That $5
million suddenly seemed to have slipped through my fingers in a way that felt
very unfair.

But I had come too far to give up. On the third and final day of the symposium,
an idea hit me. I decided to scan the file modification dates for all of the
latest files we’d been given and, lo and behold, most of the dates were August
2021, right before the symposium.

In other words, the data were obviously modified right before we examined them.
They could not possibly accurately represent data from the November 2020
election.

My flight was leaving early that evening, so I needed to be quick. I ran back to
the hotel, added this new information to my report, double checked it, triple
checked it, and saved it onto a flash drive. I hurriedly packed my things,
rushed to the symposium as it was ending, handed my report on a flash drive to
an official-looking person, and ran out to the Uber or Lyft waiting for me by
the door. I made it to the airport just in time for my flight home to Vegas.

I guess the rest is history, as they say. I never talked to Lindell after the
symposium; he never responded to my findings. So I hired great lawyers at Bailey
Glasser and filed an arbitration lawsuit against him. It dragged on for a year
and a half, during which his law firm quit and he hired a new one. During the
leadup to the hearing with the three-person arbitration panel, his witnesses
gave conflicting answers to critical questions like “What exactly was in the
data you provided to the experts and how was it related to the November 2020
U.S. presidential election?”



MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell talks to reporters at the Republican National
Committee winter meeting in Dana Point, Calif. | Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

In January 2023, the hearing was finally held. We presented our case. Lindell
presented his case, though he only was there for about one hour — to testify —
out of the four-day hearing. In April 2023, the decision was handed down,
awarding me $5 million.

“Mr. Zeidman,” the arbitrators stated, “proved the data Lindell LLC provided …
unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data.”




Last week, Lindell filed an appeal of the decision, though to win that appeal he
needs to show that the arbitrators were corrupt. He also claimed that I was part
of “a big cover-up to a much bigger picture” and should never have been allowed
to enter the contest. My lawyers and I will continue to fight him in court. When
and if I see the money, I plan to donate to a nonprofit to legitimately support
voter integrity laws and processes.

Lately, people have been saying to me that I “saved democracy in America.” I’m
really flattered, though I think that’s an exaggeration. But if more people
sought truth, even when that truth is contrary to their beliefs — such as when a
Republican like me destroys a Republican myth — then I think we really can save
democracy in America. In fact, I think that’s the only way.



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