emptywheelJul 8, 2023

The Laptop Everyone Knows as Hunter Biden's Appears to Have Been Deleted Starting February 15, 2019

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The Laptop Everyone Knows as Hunter Biden's Appears to Have Been Deleted Starting February 15, 2019 - emptywheel

In January 2019, the Gmail account Hunter Biden used to contact sex workers took over his iCloud account and ordered all his content for download. The next month, the data on the Hunter Biden laptop was deleted.

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Show threadJohn PanzerJul 8, 2023
@emptywheel Am I missing something? If the laptop deletion was successful in Feb 2019 as this log of messages seems to claim, there should not have been any files on the laptop to be recovered in April 2019. Maybe blocks of data, if it wasn’t encrypted. But not files.
Show threademptywheelJul 8, 2023

@jpanzer Then they load it back up! With some altered docs.

So. the laptop MacIsaac gets is in fact, Hunter's laptop, but also has been doctored.

Show threadJohn PanzerJul 8, 2023
@emptywheel 🤔 Taking a step back, control of the laptop in this scenario is completely compromised, so there is no chain of custody on this data even before it gets to the computer store.
Show threademptywheel
@jpanzer Correct. And yet the IRS used it investigatively.
Jul 9, 2023 at 12:10amWeb
Show threadJohn PanzerJul 9, 2023
@emptywheel Maybe somebody should blow the whistle on that part…