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Hunter Biden and the three little laptops

Once upon a time, a near-blind shop keeper received three laptop computers for repair. He believes they’re the property of Hunter Biden because one had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it. He wrote up a repair ticket, got a deposit, and got a number to call when the repair was done.

The problem so far? Unless you’re strapped for cash, when your computer fails, what you don’t do is try to get it repaired: you buy a new one, upgrading in the process. And, if you have sensitive data on the failed computer, you take it to a data retrieval specialist who can assure your private data remains private.

But to continue the fairy tale, Hunter apparently forgot about the computers and never checked back with the shopkeeper. Hunter may be many things, but I don’t believe stupid is one of them. Sensitive data on a computer is comparable to having all your eggs in one basket. Common sense says tend that basket very carefully.

Given that any of the foregoing took place, the shopkeeper was unable to reach anyone at the telephone number he was provided. So, after a grace period, ownership of the physical computers was forfeited to the shopkeeper. But not the intellectual property contained therein.

The shopkeeper violated business ethics by not erasing the hard drives or physically rendering them unreadable. He further breached business ethics by appropriating the intellectual property for himself.

And of course, he felt obligated to send a copy of the hard disc contents to President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and gave the computers to the FBI.

Months later (in October to be specific) Giuliani offered the New York Post materials for publication that included what Giuliani considered a “smoking gun:” the allegation that: “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company….” That was Giuliani’s notion of an "October surprise,” but not anyone else’s.

Basically, this tale doesn’t pass the sniff test. It smells fishy because it is fishy. Even the reporter who wrote most of the New York Post article refused to put his name on it. It’s no wonder the major media took a pass on it.

John H. Terrell

 

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