"The Washington Post’s forensic findings are unlikely to resolve that debate, offering instead only the limited revelation that some of the data on the portable drive appears to be authentic. The security experts who examined the data for The Post struggled to reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive."
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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.
“The drive is a mess,”
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"Williams also found records on the drive that indicated someone may have accessed the drive from a West Coast location in October 2020, little more than a week after the first New York Post stories on Biden’s laptop appeared.
Over the next few days, somebody created three additional folders on the drive, titled, “Mail,” “Salacious Pics Package” and “Big Guy File” — an apparent reference to Joe Biden."
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There are some serious questions to be answered regarding the "Authenticity" of the ENTIRE trove of data...smells of Rudy Giuliani & Friends...
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Stark,
My central point all along...not only is there no "clean chain of custody"...there is clear evidence that the data cache contains the work of OTHERS....AFTER the laptop was turned over to the FBI...read the WHOLE story from WaPo...I'm not at all sure you understand what "Authenticity" really means...this is the very scenario I described for you...more than once...if you want to ignore real data and live in fantasy land, that's your choice...can't help you there.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-biden-laptop-data-examined/