To do this on purpose would require way too much forethought on Hunter’s part. Plus he could not be sure that the data would be found.
Once I got the Laptop to boot up and I saw a bunch of files and directories on the hard drive, I would say OK, stop there, call the guy and have him pick it up. This guy knew who dropped it off, the 90 days had expired, so it was his now, heard the Hunter stories of Burisma, and thought what the heck, let’s poke around and see what is on here.
I believe the computer repair guy tried to get Hunter to pick up the machines and pay the bill (!), but Hunter ducked the phone calls.
That is one reason I think the “hiding financial information” from the stripper’s lawsuit is a plausible explanation for the series of events.
If Hunter had picked up the machine, then he would have had to turn it over to the plaintiff’s attorney.
That would have been f*&^ing crazy—the stripper’s attorney would have been blackmailing Hunter _forever_ and without mercy.