Hunter Biden filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against Rudy Giuliani and his former attorney, claiming they caused “total annihilation” of his digital privacy and violated federal and state computer privacy laws through their alleged efforts to hack his devices.
  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
    382·
    1 year ago

    Finally a headline that doesn’t casually assert the existence of the “Hunter Biden laptop” that Rudy, his blind repair shop buddy, or the FSB conjured out of thin air as a poor explanation for where the stolen data came from.

    • yeather@lemmy.ca
      437·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t the suing of Rudy for hacking the laptop not an admittance of it’s existence? Plus we all know the videos are there, it’s easy to believe there would be more hidden on the laptop.

      • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
        491·
        1 year ago

        No; in fact it’s explicitly not that.

        1. Defendants themselves admit that their purported possession of a “laptop” is in fact not a “laptop” at all. It is, according to their own public statements, an “external drive” that Defendants were told contained hundreds of gigabytes of Plaintiff’s personal data. At least some of the data that Defendants obtained, copied, and proceeded to hack into and tamper with belongs to Plaintiff.[1] But Plaintiff’s data was manipulated, altered and damaged before it was copied and sent to Defendants; and Defendants’ illegal hacking and tampering has involved further alterations and damage to the data to a degree that is presently unknown to Plaintiff.

        [1] This is not an admission by Plaintiff that John Paul Mac Isaac (or others) in fact possessed any particular laptop containing electronically stored data belonging to Plaintiff. Rather, Plaintiff simply acknowledges that at some point, Mac Isaac obtained electronically stored data, some of which belonged to Plaintiff.

        Occam’s Razor with all of the evidence we have suggests that if whoever hacked Hunter Biden’s iCloud account bothered actually putting the data on a laptop it wasn’t a laptop that Hunter Biden ever owned and the whole “Hunter Biden’s laptop left in a repair shop in Delaware” story was cover for the actual source of the data.

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        271·
        1 year ago

        It’s an admission that revenge porn pictures are real but that doesn’t mean they came from any particular device.