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I was reading about the alleged E-mails from Hunter Biden that some evidently "random" computer technician "found" while fixing Biden's computer. Is there any way for an investigator to be able to definitely say that these E-mails/files weren't surreptitiously planted?
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Forensics can tell.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Just writing code for a FAT32 file system. Pretty low level stuff. With this I could easily plant some files on a suitable drive, including fake dates and a trail of file updates and some now unused clusters that still contain fragments of older versions.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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But it might be beyond you to integrate your planted emails into the email client database in a way that looks legit. And a hundred other contextual details.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I feel another non sanctioned political thread brewing here in these backwoods.
grabs popcorn, seltzer, and lays back in favorite recliner.
Let the show begin.
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Yes, it's far better than professional wrestling, which is probably the closest thing in real life.
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Slacker007 wrote: I feel another non sanctioned political thread brewing here in these backwoods.
No, it wasn't meant to be political per so, but the motivation for asking the question is to determine the veracity of a claim in the political sphere. And it just so happens that I have always suspected that it is very easy for a rogue investigator to plant something on someone's drive.
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All very interesting however, when did evidence, proof or even "the truth" ever matter when money, power, influence and politics were involved?
I reckon this story might well fade into obscurity pretty quickly.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 17-Oct-20 9:43am.
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Yes, but that does not add them to the actual email server, which is where the audit trail is kept.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Yes, but that does not add them to the actual email server, which is where the audit trail is kept.
So you saying that the only way to prove this one way or another is to do this audit. Of course in the instance that motivated my question, since even if the allegation were true, it wouldn't be a crime, and thus there would be no compelling to do the audit.
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No, I am saying it is more complicated than just a few emails on a laptop.
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You have to remember there is no "smoking gun" in real law, cases are built on an amalgamation of pieces of evidence until they gain enough strength to be considered true, even if some of those pieces are circumstantial or otherwise weak.
For example we have the case that Hunter is innocent, in which case all we have to believe is true is that he was hired for millions by a foreign company in which he doesn't speak the language and has no knowledge of the sector, and that Russian agents injected fake emails onto a hard drive and sent them to a computer shop where more foreign agents "discovered" these emails and used them as a weapon.
We have another case where the emails are simply real and Hunter was employed so that company could gain access to his father, access that proved incredibly useful.
Looking at it like that, the former is far more likely so Hunter must be innocent. Even Washington Post says so.
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Did you forget the sarcasm icon?
/s
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Yet another reason why it is a pity that SMIME has not become a standard. If everybody signed their emails with a PKI-based certificated, the autheticity of the email could have been asserted regardless of origin or transport paths.
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No.
That is why the first thing forensic investigators do is make a bit-for-bit image of the device. They then work only on the image, so any tampering is easily discoverable. This is elementary "preservation of evidence" procedure.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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just plain text emails sitting on a hard drive somewhere? absolutely not. they're as unreliable as a random README.txt sitting in a folder somewhere.
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Some medical breakthroughs are, or so it seems, ignored by the media. I don't have any explanation but this one certainly deserved some mention[^].
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Curing ALS ? A uniquely nasty condition/disease ?
I suppose you missed that part . . .
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Then put it in the post. Not clicking on blind links.
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if you hover your mouse over the link then the entire link shows in your browser footer and will reveal all its wonderful secrets. Just saying. Sounds to me like you woke up on the wrong side of the beddy bed. 
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Use VirusTotal.com....
I scanned the target URL for you and you can see that the endpoint was scanned with some 60 virus checkers and they discovered nothing. View report...
VirusTotal[^]
VirusTotal is really nice for pre-scanning URLs to see if they are safe to visit.
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That doesn't tell me what it is.
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There are so many such links, here in the lounge. Every day. Perhaps there's a back-story you wish to share as to why you found it necessary to take exception to this on?
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