Posted on 04/09/2022 11:14:42 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Speaking of stolen laptops, what ever happened to John Solomon’s laptop that was stolen out of his car a couple years ago. Never a mention of it again by him or anyone else
The repairman’s argument makes sense.
Good question.
I believe Maxey’s been crowing about 450 GBs of newly recovered data for the past week.
More relevant might be who is telling Maxey that? Could well be some intel operatives were able to get themselves recommended to him for the excavation work and they planted a discrediting story.
I believe the computer repairman. There may be 450 gigs worth of deleted file names, but as explained in the article if the area on the drive has been overwritten by new data, then the original file is unrecoverable.
There are super-high end methods to theoretically reveal "layers" of hard drive use which is why a "military grade" hard drive deletion overwrites the entire drive several times with random data.
But I highly doubt that this level of forensic hard drive examination has been done, or at this point could be done, on the original drive.
The technical illiteracy is mind blowing.
Windows 10 & 300G of data on a 500G HD qualifies as "full" by my standards. I suppose the critics never heard of a drive partition.
That stated, my own OS is drive C, a 500G PARTITION.
The other drives - e.g., D, E, etc., respectively - are 500G 'partitions' each. My backup folder size from work alone - spanning a mere 3 years, absent the OS - is 208G on one of those drives.
I'm compelled to dismiss this as BS.
I purchased a software program a decade ago that helped me scour levels of formatting and get over 3x the ammount of data that would fit on the disk normally. Most of it uncorrupted.
did the Mac guy actually try to see if he could recover “deleted” or overwritten data and was unsuccessful???
I watched an interview with the laptop repairman. He did receive three laptops, and he said that two of them were lost causes, only one of them had to potential for data retrieval, IIRC.
Funny, I don’t recall hearing him mention what happed to the two laptops so far gone they were considered lost causes.
There could have ben all manner of data compression going on. It’s possible a 1TB drive could store 1.5TB of info.
We all pretending crackheads don’t know how to use a zip file?
Wait a minute. I seem to remember when this story first broke that there were more than one laptops/hard drives left for repair. Was that wrong?
“So who do we believe? The computer repairman or Jack Maxey.”
Jack Maxey.
If Jack Maxey feared for his life so much so, that he had to go to Switzerland, how scared/intimidated/compromised do you think the Delaware computer repairman is?
I'll believe the computer guy over some dude who has allegedly fled to Switzerland in order to "safely" analyze the contents of the laptop files.
My guess is that he's an avid skier and taking advantage of the end of season snow and looking for a free ride back to the states......
That is a major issue, comparable to O's "birth certificate".
At best, the hard drive would provide for possible new avenues of investigation for a competent, motivated body of investigators.
Exactly.
Jack Maxey was the Bannon “go to guy” on the laptop/hard drive story from the start.
He dove deep into this at the very beginning and even left the show to pursue it further. He has been doing so ALL THIS TIME.
If you just heard of Jack Maxey and think he is new to this party, you are mistaken!
Although the F_I Cyber Guru denies he knows anything, the F_I had the same data that Maxey has, but has their collective fingers in their ears chanting na-na-na-na.....
I have an inexpensive Windows utility called "Uneraser" (www.uneraser.com) that I have used on several occasions to recover erased files that cumulatively were several times larger than the hard drive they came from.
In one instance I was approached by an acquaintance who wanted me to see if I could recover erased image files from the laptop PC previously owned by a family member who recently had died. The laptop only had a 500MB hard drive but I recovered 1.2GB in DCIM files. A small percentage of the recovered images were "messed up" but the majority of them appeared perfect.
And NO, there was no compression used on this hard drive.
And that's just with cheap, available-to-the-general-public software.
I don't claim to know how it works but using this software made me acutely aware that nothing you record on magnetic storage media can ever truly be erased. Even if you do DoD5220.22-M-compliant wiping or degaussing, the boys in Langley can recover data from it.
Why else would business be booming for hard drive shredders?
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