Tonight typical Fox guest leftist apologist Ethan Bearman who has appeared on several Fox nightly shows and has a long history of lying through his teeth told another whopper. While claiming he has industry IT experience, he is trying to make the absurd case that the Hunter Biden emails are fabricated because due to Apple's security, there is no way the tech could have retrieved them off the hard drive without the password. This guy knows NOTHING about what he's talking about.

I have 3 Mac bare hard drives -- one from an iMac and 2 others from Mac Book Pros (all now have SSDs) that were easily read without decryption measures on anyone's part. Physical access to the machine or device in many cases is all it takes. I just hooked the hard drives up to a HDD dock and had access to the drives -- no password required. If you try to access a Mac remotely, yes, you will come up against login issues but not with the bare hard drive hooked up to another machine.

Now, are there situations where security measures may be in place on Apple computers that would make this tougher or impossible? I'm sure there are though I'm not specifically aware of any. Maybe Mac OS has that available; maybe it requires third party software -- I don't know. But I'm also quite sure that Biden didn't have them on his computer. I didn't have them on mine (nor did my wife on her's -- one of the MBP drives), and all computers had a password enabled. But to equate Mac hard drives with iPhone security is ridiculous. Be prepared -- that's what the left is probably going to do. A National Review guy (forgot his name) debunked this by asking Bearman, "where the included pictures fabricated as well?" Bearman asserted the pictures didn't come from the laptop (lying again) though he didn't suggest where he thought they came from.

And these people think conservatives are evil while they lie about anything and everything to keep their idiot voter base misinformed. My goodness.

Saw this. Add to it his comment about "who gets a MacBook repaired for $85".

Haven't seen an invoice, but typically you pay for the initial service and then pay the full bill when the work is done.

fightingfarmer09 said:

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Saw this. Add to it his comment about "who gets a MacBook repaired for $85".

Haven't seen an invoice, but typically you pay for the initial service and then pay the full bill when the work is done.

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Crackheads?

The subpoena was for the laptop and an external hard drive. Could the files have been in the external?

That Ethan guy has a very smug, punchable face.

fightingfarmer09 said:

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Saw this. Add to it his comment about "who gets a MacBook repaired for $85".

Haven't seen an invoice, but typically you pay for the initial service and then pay the full bill when the work is done.

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Clearly that guy didn't read the article before going on tv. Hunter didn't pay!

Normal people, quite justifiably, respond to stories like this with, "Interesting, but let's wait to see how the evidence develops." But the left has responded with, "We don't need to actually let the evidence develop. Here's our explanation, which also has no evidence. You should believe our story instead."

I heard one of Biden's national coms people today say Twitter was justified in censoring links to the NY Post story, because it's false. And we know its false because Twitter says it's false. Talk about circuitous reasoning.

Both amazing and quite scary. I'm not sure if these people are just idiots or Machiavellian. Maybe they're both, but I think they're getting nervous.

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I'm not sure if these people are just idiots or Machiavellian.

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Machiavellian types don't think everyone else is stupid.

Do you really think a crackhead is going to have security measures on his computer? Let's be realistic. How is he suppose to smoke his crack and make inappropriate videos if he cant remember a dang password? See. I doubt there is one. And if there was one you usually give that to the people trying to fix your *****

I'm not super tech savvy, but when I dropped a mac book off for repair, I had to give them my password.

Sq1dvm said:

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I'm not super tech savvy, but when I dropped a mac book off for repair, I had to give them my password.

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I'm in IT.

Unless you encrypt your hard drive, if I have physical access to it, I can access the contents. Doesn't matter if it's Windows, Linux, or Unix (MacOS is a 100% certified UNIX OS.)

I have serious doubts that Hunter would be able to do something as simple as encrypt a hard drive based on his past behaviors, and he's definitely not smart enough or likeable enough to have an assistant or aide that helps him with technical things (like Huma did for Hillary, for example.)

If the emails are fabricated, why hasn't Hunter Biden made a statement to that effect? I would.
Simple answer: they are very real.

The Biden campaign is currently puckered up and in deep kimchee....they're just hoping that their friends at Twitter, Facebook and the media can save them. If what I have read is true, nothing can save them now except massive amounts of cheating. Stories will continue to be dripped out and there is now no time to formulate a believable and verifiable response.
Hence, you have guys like this idiot going on media and lying through his teeth.
They are ******.

Earl_Rudder said:

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Sq1dvm said:

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I'm not super tech savvy, but when I dropped a mac book off for repair, I had to give them my password.

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I'm in IT.

Unless you encrypt your hard drive, if I have physical access to it, I can access the contents. Doesn't matter if it's Windows, Linux, or Unix (MacOS is a 100% certified UNIX OS.)

I have serious doubts that Hunter would be able to do something as simple as encrypt a hard drive based on his past behaviors, and he's definitely not smart enough or likeable enough to have an assistant or aide that helps him with technical things (like Huma did for Hillary, for example.)

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Another IT guy here and I confirm the above. I have retrieved data off of computera without the password or with a crashed OS hundreds of times. It's easy. Imagine what the FBI could do.

houag80 said:

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The Biden campaign is currently puckered up and in deep kimchee....they're just hoping that their friends at Twitter, Facebook and the media can save them. If what I have read is true, nothing can save them now except massive amounts of cheating. Stories will continue to be dripped out and there is now no time to formulate a believable and verifiable response.
Hence, you have guys like this idiot going on media and lying through his teeth.
They are ******.

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The media is already carrying their water claiming its Russian disinformation

There's a lot of dependencies on a Mac security wise. Also considering mdm in a Corp environment. Something like Intune and Jamf give you a lot of options to steer around security as you get root level access. I've written a number of bash scripts to do this.

Point being said, this is some crack/druggies Mac, so I'm pretty sure he didnt enable FileVault (hardware encryption), probably used some hackable password if he even had one, and not sure what OS he was on. Mojave and Catalina have way more security native. Like any Linux/Unix box you can also boot into recovery with terminal enabled which allows some visibility and ways to boot to terminal single user mode. Also, if it was dropped off for repair, he gave the tech some way to get into the Mac. Ie, his password.

This coming from a Systems engineer who used to support Jamf and done a number of custom automations around macs. Thank god I don't do that anymore.

99% of the people that use macs are clueless around any of the native security options unless it's done for them. I've also literally seen people turn security options off bc of convenience.