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> The laptop was real, yes, Weren't only some emails authenticated? The details on how the Washington Post authenticated them weren't enough to make me trust t

> The laptop was real, yes, Weren't only some emails authenticated? The details on how the Washington Post authenticated them weren't enough to make me trust that they knew what they're doing. Email is famously unencrypted in a lot of its transit; could it have been sniffed? Could Biden have been the victim of spyware that captured the emails? It may very well be real, but the story about how it got to the press is bizarre, and the evidence is messy.

tmaly 4y ago
I thought the FBI had the laptop. How are all these other people claiming to have copies of the hard drive?
- dehrmann 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy#Laptop_and_hard_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers... The story was stranger than I remember. > According to the New York Post story, a person—who Mac Isaac could not identify because he is legally blind—left the computer at the repair shop to repair water damage, but once this was completed, the shop had no contact information for its owner, and nobody ever paid for it or came to pick it up.
- desindol 4y ago
  The easiest thing to get traction would just to release it anonymously but it never happened. There was that tiny 4chan leak but it basically was nothingburger.
  - tmaly 4y ago
    I remember hearing a story recently that a representative from Florida entered a copy of the hard drive into the Congressional Record. What does that actually mean? Is it now available for anyone to request a copy?
tstrimple 4y ago
More than that, there is evidence of tampering with the data on the drive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-... > In their examinations, Green and Williams found evidence that people other than Hunter Biden had accessed the drive and written files to it, both before and after the initial stories in the New York Post and long after the laptop itself had been turned over to the FBI. > Maxey had alerted The Washington Post to this issue in advance, saying that others had accessed the data to examine its contents and make copies of files. But the lack of what experts call a “clean chain of custody” undermined Green’s and Williams’s ability to determine the authenticity of most of the drive’s contents.

tmaly 4y ago

I thought the FBI had the laptop. How are all these other people claiming to have copies of the hard drive?

dehrmann 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy#Laptop_and_hard_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers... The story was stranger than I remember. > According to the New York Post story, a person—who Mac Isaac could not identify because he is legally blind—left the computer at the repair shop to repair water damage, but once this was completed, the shop had no contact information for its owner, and nobody ever paid for it or came to pick it up.
desindol 4y ago
The easiest thing to get traction would just to release it anonymously but it never happened. There was that tiny 4chan leak but it basically was nothingburger.
- tmaly 4y ago
  I remember hearing a story recently that a representative from Florida entered a copy of the hard drive into the Congressional Record. What does that actually mean? Is it now available for anyone to request a copy?

tstrimple 4y ago

More than that, there is evidence of tampering with the data on the drive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-... > In their examinations, Green and Williams found evidence that people other than Hunter Biden had accessed the drive and written files to it, both before and after the initial stories in the New York Post and long after the laptop itself had been turned over to the FBI. > Maxey had alerted The Washington Post to this issue in advance, saying that others had accessed the data to examine its contents and make copies of files. But the lack of what experts call a “clean chain of custody” undermined Green’s and Williams’s ability to determine the authenticity of most of the drive’s contents.