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Was that shared on Twitter?

Natsu 6y ago
Yes: https://twitter.com/blue_leaks https://twitter.com/blue_leaks This one is more also nefarious than it looks, because it includes private information on victims of crime.
- newacct583 6y ago
  How is Hunter Biden not the victim of this crime? Even if you believe the laptop story, his data was stolen. But you're right. Blue Leaks, if they share hacked personal data on Twitter, should absolutely be banned under the same policy.
  - boomboomsubban 6y ago
    They were. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-has-permanently-banned-the-group-that-published-the-blueleaks-police-files-obtained-by-hackers/ar-BB15UOjJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-has-perman...
    - Natsu 6y ago
      They don't seem to be doing a very good job of it given that it took me just a few moments to find the material on an account named blue_leaks ...
      - boomboomsubban 6y ago
        That account seems to post news stories about the leaks, which is not a violation of the guidelines. The group that published the leaks had their account banned and links to their site blocked.
  - Natsu 6y ago
    > Even if you believe the laptop story, his data was stolen. They allegedly have a contractual right to the laptop due to non-payment. It's a damn good reason not to take your PC there for repairs, though.
    - mike00632 6y ago
      I hope you realize how unlikely the laptop story is to be true.
      - Natsu 6y ago
        I can understand why it feels "too perfect" for an October surprise, sure, but then how did they get the pictures of Hunter sleeping with a meth pipe? I ran them through the tools on hackerfactor.com and I see no obvious fakery. I've heard rumors that Hunter was allegedly hacked to get them, but I have yet to see media reports of this from prior to this story breaking. If you can provide some, please do! Right now, my take is that, at best, this is an elaborate cover story for releasing real dirt and at worst, it's legit, like the time Hunter returned a rental car with a crack pipe in it. We'll need to dig into it further, though, I want to see if the emails have DKIM validation with a body hash parameter, etc.
        newacct583 6y ago
        > We'll need to dig into it further, though Fundamentally, the reason this got banned and then ignored is that that need is SUPPOSED to be supplied by the journalists doing the research, not random conspiracy nerds on the internet. > I've heard rumors that Hunter was allegedly hacked to get them, but I have yet to see media reports of this Exactly! Which is the level of rigor you should expect to see from your sources. Which makes it doubly frustrating that you seem not to be applying that same logic to the original story. FWIW: I'll bet you anything that no headers ever appear for those emails anywhere (at least none from western domains -- I'll admit to the possibility that the Kremlin could forge a DKIM signature for a Burisma address). They're almost certainly forgeries, which is why they're being distributed in the crazy obfuscated way they are.

Yes: https://twitter.com/blue_leaks https://twitter.com/blue_leaks This one is more also nefarious than it looks, because it includes private information on victims of crime.

newacct583 6y ago
How is Hunter Biden not the victim of this crime? Even if you believe the laptop story, his data was stolen. But you're right. Blue Leaks, if they share hacked personal data on Twitter, should absolutely be banned under the same policy.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago
  They were. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-has-permanently-banned-the-group-that-published-the-blueleaks-police-files-obtained-by-hackers/ar-BB15UOjJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-has-perman...
  - Natsu 6y ago
    They don't seem to be doing a very good job of it given that it took me just a few moments to find the material on an account named blue_leaks ...
    - boomboomsubban 6y ago
      That account seems to post news stories about the leaks, which is not a violation of the guidelines. The group that published the leaks had their account banned and links to their site blocked.
- Natsu 6y ago
  > Even if you believe the laptop story, his data was stolen. They allegedly have a contractual right to the laptop due to non-payment. It's a damn good reason not to take your PC there for repairs, though.
  - mike00632 6y ago
    I hope you realize how unlikely the laptop story is to be true.
    - Natsu 6y ago
      I can understand why it feels "too perfect" for an October surprise, sure, but then how did they get the pictures of Hunter sleeping with a meth pipe? I ran them through the tools on hackerfactor.com and I see no obvious fakery. I've heard rumors that Hunter was allegedly hacked to get them, but I have yet to see media reports of this from prior to this story breaking. If you can provide some, please do! Right now, my take is that, at best, this is an elaborate cover story for releasing real dirt and at worst, it's legit, like the time Hunter returned a rental car with a crack pipe in it. We'll need to dig into it further, though, I want to see if the emails have DKIM validation with a body hash parameter, etc.
      - newacct583 6y ago
        > We'll need to dig into it further, though Fundamentally, the reason this got banned and then ignored is that that need is SUPPOSED to be supplied by the journalists doing the research, not random conspiracy nerds on the internet. > I've heard rumors that Hunter was allegedly hacked to get them, but I have yet to see media reports of this Exactly! Which is the level of rigor you should expect to see from your sources. Which makes it doubly frustrating that you seem not to be applying that same logic to the original story. FWIW: I'll bet you anything that no headers ever appear for those emails anywhere (at least none from western domains -- I'll admit to the possibility that the Kremlin could forge a DKIM signature for a Burisma address). They're almost certainly forgeries, which is why they're being distributed in the crazy obfuscated way they are.