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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by likeafox on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:46PM (#24782017)
>It seems like this computer shop fellow voluntarily gave over this hard drive only after the computer in question became his property (as a result of someone not collecting the computer and not paying the bill)

To say this strains credulity would be be a massive understatement.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by jboggan on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @06:18PM (#24782344)
As of yesterday if you had told me that Twitter would start banning NY Post stories from its platform I would have told you that it strains credulity.
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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by AndriyKunitsyn on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:13PM (#24782832)
No. People leave their computers in repair shops for good all the time.

There are other red flags in the NY Post article (like, why wouldn't they just post e-mails with DKIMs), but this part is totally believable to me.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by Jach on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @08:15PM (#24783319)
Also, people routinely abuse their privileges to snoop on others, and computer repair shops copying disks and having a looksie is no exception.

On the email remark, are you aware of any mainstream news org (wikileaks doesn't count) who has posted a full raw email with DKIMs as part of their story's evidence? I'd honestly be surprised if you can show me one, double so if it's commonplace, since it's one of those things I just sort of consider nearly impossible for the media to actually do.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by throwawa3495 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:57PM (#24782142)
wait though, bc i really dont see it in any of these articles:

who has been hacked?

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by srtjstjsj on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:57PM (#24783974)
The NY Post claims Hunter Biden's or one of his associates' laptops was hacked.
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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by svrb on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:12PM (#24784095)
Which would imply the story is true, but that won't stop HN white knights from claiming otherwise. Even after

> The Biden campaign did not dispute the veracity of the emails

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by pnw_hazor on Thursday October 15, 2020 @12:20PM (#24790316)
No one was hacked. The repair shop owned the laptop after it was abandoned.
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