U.S. Politics

[Royell Storing]

Debunked only in your fervid brain.

Question: How do you know that the emails found on Hunter's hard drive weren't forged or altered by your beloved KGB*?

And there's this, of course:

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/03/1002858655/how-russia-used-an-overt-agent-to-attack-joe-biden-in-the-2020-election

*Today's SVR and FSB

  Are you one of those people that signed the discredited petition claiming Hunter's Lap Top was Russian Disinformation? If not, maybe you can still add your name?

[Tom Graves]

Are you one of those people that signed the discredited petition claiming Hunter's Lap Top was Russian Disinformation? If not, maybe you can still add your name?

In March 2022, The Washington Post published the findings of two forensic information analysts it had retained to examine 217 gigabytes of data provided to the paper on a hard drive by Republican activist Jack Maxey, who represented that its contents came from the laptop. One of the analysts characterized the data as a "disaster" from a forensics standpoint. The analysts found that people other than Hunter Biden had repeatedly accessed and copied data for nearly three years; they also found evidence that people other than Hunter Biden had accessed and written files to the drive, both before and after the New York Post story. In September 2020, someone created six new folders on the drive, including with the names "Biden Burisma", "Big Guy File", "Salacious Pics Package" and "Hunter. Burisma Documents". One of the analysts found evidence someone may have accessed the drive contents from a West Coast location days after The New York Post published their stories about the laptop.[5] Using cryptographic signatures, one analyst verified that 1,828 of the roughly 129,000 emails on the drive came from the indicated email accounts of origin, suggesting they were authentic and had not been tampered with. The other analysis verified nearly 22,000 emails using similar methods, after overcoming technical issues the first analysis could not resolve. The analysts said emails from Burisma, where Pozharskyi was an advisor, were likely authentic but cautioned that if Burisma had been hacked, it would be possible for hackers to use stolen cryptographic signatures to forge emails that would pass as authentic. The New York Times reported in January 2020 that Russian military intelligence had hacked Burisma beginning in November 2019; a co-founder of the firm that discovered the hacking said Russians were stealing email credentials. Both analysts acknowledged that cryptographic signatures are not a perfect way to authenticate emails, as some email services do not implement the technology as rigorously as others. About 16,000 of the 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures came via Google, which rigorously implements the technology. The analysts noted that cryptographic signatures can only verify that an email originated from a certain email account, but not who controlled that account; there are other means for hackers to commandeer email accounts. According to the Washington Post, "Some other emails on the drive that have been the foundation for previous news reports could not be verified because the messages lacked verifiable cryptographic signatures."[5] Among the emails that The Washington Post was able to authenticate was the Pozharskyi email that formed the basis of the New York Post's original article. An email referencing "10 held by H for the big guy?", a possible reference to a rejected proposal to give Joe Biden a 10% share of a Chinese deal his son was negotiating, was not authenticated, though a recipient of the email publicly vouched for its authenticity.[5] One of the analysts found that timestamps on documents and operating system indexes matched, though he noted hackers could forge timestamps in undetectable ways. The analysts also noted that repeated access to the drive resulted in logs and other files used by forensic analysts to examine system activity being deleted. Neither analyst found evidence emails or other files had been manipulated by hackers, nor could they rule out that possibility.[5][77] In reference to a cache of emails allegedly coming from the Hunter Biden Laptop, Matt Tait, a former information security specialist for the GCHQ (UK's Government Communications Headquarters), told CyberScoop, "it is clear the cache isn't in its original form"[78][79][80]

-- Wikipedia

[John Mytton]

JohnM

[Tom Graves]

JohnM

LOL!

[Richard Smith]

You are?

I actually like the Cheka better.  A cooler name and I could still wear the hat and stay at the Metropol while plotting against America.  They have a great fountain there in the dining area.  How Felix Dzerzhinsky and I must have laughed as we planned the Trump collusion hoax and JFK conspiracy back in 1917 trusting to Elon Musk to invent his time machine.

[Tom Graves]

I actually like the Cheka better.  A cooler name and I could still wear the hat and stay at the Metropol while plotting against America.  They have a great fountain there in the dining area.  How Felix Dzerzhinsky and I must have laughed as we planned the Trump collusion hoax and JFK conspiracy back in 1917 trusting to Elon Musk to invent his time machine.

Don't flatter yourself, Comrade.

Even back then you would have a bit player, as you are today when you unwittingly(?) spread KGB* disinformation about the anomaly-replete JFK assassination and the Putin-friendly Traitorous Orange Turd known as Donald J. Trump. 

*Today's SVR and FSB

[Richard Smith]

Don't flatter yourself, Comrade.

Even back then you would have a bit player, as you are today when you unwittingly(?) spread KGB* disinformation about the anomaly-replete JFK assassination and the Putin-friendly Traitorous Orange Turd known as Donald J. Trump. 

*Today's SVR and FSB

The KGB is still around and having agents promote the conclusion that LHO assassinated JFK?  It's all becoming clear just as Iron Felix explained in 1917 before Elon transported us to the future.