I’m sure that it’ll work quite nicely with the Qanon crowd. no need for verification, or even actual facts. You can make up random shit like say… “Hillary’s running a pedophile ring out of a DC pizza shop” with absolutely nothing other than a random bald faced lie, and those idiots will run with it, not because it’s a plausible story, but because it’s something that they want to believe. That’s all it takes.
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It’s very unclear. The Post article mentions water damage. Subsequent comments by Guiliani and the supposed repair shop guy have said data recovery, unspecified brokeness. And anywhere from 1 to 6 laptops.
Repair shop guy apparently provided all these different explanations in the same conversation. While also shifting his account of FBI involvement sentence to sentence. He contacted them by phone, they contacted him by phone, an agent arrived unexpectedly, he was already in contact with the FBI because his family is in danger because he’s very important. And so forth.
I’m going with there’s no laptop and no drive. Rudy probably ginned up some Qanon wack job to take credit after the fact when people started asking obvious questions.
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Ewww…that’s like, corpse DNA. They better suit up.
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I need to start watching the news on the weekends. I completely missed the whole child pornography angle. This October has been plenty surprising though.
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I wonder if there’s some calculation that Trump may not be in power that much longer, and if they want to suddenly establish credentials as objective reporters, or at least sane conservatives, they need to have something to point to to say “Yeah, they asked up to lie, but we’re honest reporters”
Once they believe in a secret child slave labor camp on Mars, there is no Earthly conspiracy too far out there.
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I feel the same way. Apparently Trump is now talking about Biden being compromised by China. That completely passed me by and I don’t even particularly care to find out what they invented there.
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Can you show me one shred of evidence that conclusively disproves that NASA is running a slave colony on Mars? Can’t do it? Curious…
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Obviously, the rovers are steered away from it intentionally! The proof is in the absence of proof! Wake up, sheeple! (/s, just in case)
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Mars is a planet.
Mars Surface area 144798500 km2
Earth land surface area 148940000 km2
Opportunity has driven 45.16 kilometers.
Spirit has driven 7.73 km
Curiosity has driven 22.97 km
No need to steer them away from anything,.
If you want a glimpse of more than a tiny fraction of mars, you’ll need to use the many orbiters.
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A hard drive in a MacBook Pro? You haven’t been able to spec a MBP with spinning rust platters since about 2012, and full disk encryption has been on by default since 2014. The chances of a fairly wealthy person having an unencrypted hard drive in a MacBook Pro in 2019 seem quite slim.
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Really? How do you figure? Did macOS implement default FDE and I did not noice? What does his wralth have to do with the encryption?
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Or Bannon’s…
That some random repair shop dude isn’t going to break that encryption. It’s very good. It would take Apple or…I don’t know…some state-sponsored agency to break it…maybe in a city that rhymes with Paint Smeetersburg…
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Yes.
Exactly this.
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And this is an explanation of the wealth relevance how?
Thanks, I did not know it was opt out. That is awesome.
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Ah - I meant that Hunter Biden would be very unlikely to be using a 6+ year old laptop because of his wealth.
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Gotcha, and my mangling of the word wealth certainly did not add clarity. I actually have a 2013 because its the last year of the anti glare screens!
Part of a running joke.
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I tried to find out what version of the OS the Macbook had but it’s not even listed in the work order.it did dawn on me that most repair shops require login credentials when you drop something off. I always reject this request when I have an iphone or ipad screen fixed, but they do request it. This would render the encryption pointless.
