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They prevented spreading the story of Hunter Biden's laptop just before the last American election [Edit: it's strange to be downvoted for a factually correct s

by indy 5y ago

They prevented spreading the story of Hunter Biden's laptop just before the last American election [Edit: it's strange to be downvoted for a factually correct statement.]

nullc 5y ago
The thread I created on validating the legitimacy of one of those emails using DKIM back when the story broke was quickly flagged. Be glad all you got was a downvote.
- astrange 5y ago
  That means nothing except his email account was hacked and put on a random laptop, which is what happened. They're free to delete any emails they like, or even add some as long as you don't check every single one.
  - nullc 5y ago
    > means nothing except his email account was hacked and put on a random laptop, which is what happened I've never seen this suggested, certainly not in any official communication by the relevant parties. It would be a weird evidentiary standard to construct highly complex, even far out defenses, for someone accused of dubious conduct that must be defeated when they won't even put their own credibility on the line in arguing them themselves. > They're free to delete any emails they like Absolutely, but that doesn't do anything to answer validated emails which are concerning on their own, in isolation.
    - astrange 5y ago
      Why release a statement about what's either an intelligence op (if it's a hack) or a CFAA violation (as reading someone's email on their laptop probably is)? And you can't say finding someone's abandoned laptop is just finders keepers, everything on earth is a CFAA violation. It's nice and open ended like that. Note before it was "found" there was already a pseudonymous report written about some of its contents. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-groundwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-... …and a related party stole Ashley Biden's diary and published it with another fake backstory a bit later. But they've actually been indicted.
  - temp8964 5y ago
    Where did you get this weird story?

by indy 5y ago

They prevented spreading the story of Hunter Biden's laptop just before the last American election [Edit: it's strange to be downvoted for a factually correct statement.]

nullc 5y ago

The thread I created on validating the legitimacy of one of those emails using DKIM back when the story broke was quickly flagged. Be glad all you got was a downvote.

astrange 5y ago
That means nothing except his email account was hacked and put on a random laptop, which is what happened. They're free to delete any emails they like, or even add some as long as you don't check every single one.
- nullc 5y ago
  > means nothing except his email account was hacked and put on a random laptop, which is what happened I've never seen this suggested, certainly not in any official communication by the relevant parties. It would be a weird evidentiary standard to construct highly complex, even far out defenses, for someone accused of dubious conduct that must be defeated when they won't even put their own credibility on the line in arguing them themselves. > They're free to delete any emails they like Absolutely, but that doesn't do anything to answer validated emails which are concerning on their own, in isolation.
  - astrange 5y ago
    Why release a statement about what's either an intelligence op (if it's a hack) or a CFAA violation (as reading someone's email on their laptop probably is)? And you can't say finding someone's abandoned laptop is just finders keepers, everything on earth is a CFAA violation. It's nice and open ended like that. Note before it was "found" there was already a pseudonymous report written about some of its contents. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-groundwork-hunter-biden-conspiracy-deluge-n1245387 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-... …and a related party stole Ashley Biden's diary and published it with another fake backstory a bit later. But they've actually been indicted.
- temp8964 5y ago
  Where did you get this weird story?