‘Guy’s got a hit squad’: Meet the computer repair shop owner at center of Hunter Biden scandal

[Cyber Liberty]

Someone assembled evidence, and unless the shop is a forensic shop utilized by LEOs for the purpose of gathering evidence, it was not the shop.

My bet is on Rudy's lawyer, who was the person who received the HD image.  I think the shop saw what they had, and made the copy of the drive they now owned as a hedge against the FBI doing nothing.  It was a good bet.

[roamer_1]

@roamer_1
You ever check out LockPickingLawyer channel on YouTube?  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ?reload=9
it is amazing how quickly and easily he picks so called pick proof locks and standard locks in just seconds.

Technically not aa thread jack 

Thanks for the link... Yeah I have seen his stuff before, but didn't ever sub. I will now.

It ain't just locks, man. This all comes from repairing things, really.  Any time a manufacturer makes something designed to keep folks like me from fixing it, it just becomes a natural challenge. If I can get my hands on it, likely you lose... Or win, depending on your point of view. 

I hate planned obsolescence almost as much as I hate guarded data.

[roamer_1]

My bet is on Rudy's lawyer, who was the person who received the HD image.  I think the shop saw what they had, and made the copy of the drive they now owned as a hedge against the FBI doing nothing.  It was a good bet.

That makes some sense. Thus the feebs could not bury it.

[XenaLee]

Thanks for the link... Yeah I have seen his stuff before, but didn't ever sub. I will now.

It ain't just locks, man. This all comes from repairing things, really.  Any time a manufacturer makes something designed to keep folks like me from fixing it, it just becomes a natural challenge. If I can get my hands on it, likely you lose... Or win, depending on your point of view. 

I hate planned obsolescence almost as much as I hate guarded data.

So do I.   It's designed to keep the working class poor, replacing the stuff that used to last a lifetime (appliances, electronics, light bulbs, etc.).

[DB]

It's fun. So are combo locks. So are electronic locks. playing with that now, trying out techniques to hack bluetooth and such to make a car unlock. Close to a universal 'unlocker' based on that key fob folks use to unlock their cars... I would not be surprised if such a thing already exists - Like universal garage door openers... one of which I also possess.

If I didn't have a conscience I would be a billionaire. 

I was pretty good with locks 40 years ago... But I've not had an immediate need to pick one since...

I'm assuming that the universal garage door openers (and car key fobs) have to learn the rolling code sequence first by sniffing it being used once. And once learned has direct access. Is that correct?

[DB]

Thanks for the link... Yeah I have seen his stuff before, but didn't ever sub. I will now.

It ain't just locks, man. This all comes from repairing things, really.  Any time a manufacturer makes something designed to keep folks like me from fixing it, it just becomes a natural challenge. If I can get my hands on it, likely you lose... Or win, depending on your point of view. 

I hate planned obsolescence almost as much as I hate guarded data.

I made my own cable TV decoder way back when and used it for many years... Got everything... Didn't sell one or give one to anyone. This was before the internet.

[sneakypete]

My money's on the tech shop.  The FBI has a verified history of ignoring some crimes to protect Democrat politicians, while fabricating cases out of whole cloth to implicate Republicans.  See:  Steele "dossier."

@Cyber Liberty

Why would anyone be surprised by that,after decades of Dim and RINO appointments to executive positions?

Yeah,it is slowly starting to change now,as people in the Trump administration are slowly replacing agents and supervisors as they retire,and promoting honest agents to supervisory positions as the geezers retire,but it's not going to get clean overnight. It's an on-going process.

Unless,of course Biden is elected. If that happens,it's business as usual.

[roamer_1]

So do I.   It's designed to keep the working class poor, replacing the stuff that used to last a lifetime (appliances, electronics, light bulbs, etc.).

YEP. And it's everywhere. But that's how a redneck boy gets nice things. I'll go buy a box of crap at an auction, or go pickin in garbage cans and yards... Bring it home and fix it... Small engine stuff is a perfect example. I seldom have money in fixing a lawn mower or garden tractor... Usually, just take it apart and clean it. Same in pneumatic tools... Same in about everything. And that lawn mower I hauled away for nothing is for sale for $200 bucks. Right now it's snow blowers. Trying to build up a stock, because on the first snow, they'll be worth a mint.

It was busted when I got it, so what is there to lose? And normally, I don't lose.   

[sneakypete]

Nah.  I stand by my initial bet that it was dropped off by a drug-addled Hunter Biden, and he either forgot dropping the pc off .... or he forgot 'where' he dropped it off... and didn't know how to recover the pc.   Even Hunter Biden can't be so stupid that he didn't realize that there was damming evidence on that computer.... that he just left the pc there and was unwilling to pay.

@XenaLee

He no doubt assumed that no one would see the photos and recognize him as Biden's son,so he didn't worry about it.

Probably 9  out of 10 times he would be right. This was the 1 time he was wrong.

Even so,neither he nor Slow Joe are worried about it. They are just going to refuse to answer questions about it,the media will ignore it,and it will just go away.

[LegalAmerican]

@Cyber Liberty

Why would anyone be surprised by that,after decades of Dim and RINO appointments to executive positions?

Yeah,it is slowly starting to change now,as people in the Trump administration are slowly replacing agents and supervisors as they retire,and promoting honest agents to supervisory positions as the geezers retire,but it's not going to get clean overnight. It's an on-going process.

Unless,of course Biden is elected. If that happens,it's business as usual.

 

[roamer_1]

I was pretty good with locks 40 years ago... But I've not had an immediate need to pick one since...

It's still pretty much the same. You'd be surprised for instance at how many cars a slim jim still works fine on.

I'm assuming that the universal garage door openers (and car key fobs) have to learn the rolling code sequence first by sniffing it being used once. And once learned has direct access. Is that correct?

That's mostly bullcrap. Well sorta. My gizmo goes through eight maybe 12 or so instances... Each of those tests for code, each in an order... which is the rolling code you are referring to... before going on to the next instance. It's a Frankenstein gizmo about half the size of a brief case, but it works on about any of em. All I have to do is flip switches between tries (instances).

I don't care about pairing and working again, All I want is the damn door to open.

[sneakypete]

The FBI is the very last organization to be trusted.  After covering for Clinton, no one in America in their right mind should trust these bozos.

@jafo2010

CLINTON?????

ROFLMAO! How about Roosevelt,the Kennedy Klan,and every other political creature since the founding of the FBI?

There is no doubt in my mind that Hunter was a bag man for his father.

Of course he was. He doesn't seem to be qualified to do anything else.

His handling the money for tribute allowed Joe Clueless deniability.

A tried and proven program.

Biden is as crooked as a corkscrew.

Well,the people behind him pushing the buttons certainly are,but I doubt he has the mind OR the moral character to tell right from wrong. His job was to be a male model that would appeal to Dim women and homosexuals,so that he could get elected and carry out the orders given to him by the peopIe who pull his strings.

I understand this shop's owner, and his fear that death would be visited upon him by powerful folks wanting to silence him.  That is still the case.

In complete agreement about that. Making them public quickly was like buying life insurance. Has more to do with self-defense than politics. Once he released them the Dims had no real reason to go after him,and if they did,questions WOULD have been asked.

The basis of their whole existence is to lie quietly in the background to pull the strings,and let everyone else take the chances.

[DCPatriot]

It's my understanding that the shop owner in a genius move....MADE A COPY OF THE HARD DRIVE...and gave that COPY to Rudy Giuliani...who gave a copy to the New York Post.

Has nothing to do with the FBI receiving the laptop.

Had it been simply given to the FBI, it might have disappeared down the rabbit hole.

[roamer_1]

I made my own cable TV decoder way back when and used it for many years... Got everything... Didn't sell one or give one to anyone. This was before the internet.

Me too... I didn't do that work, but I had a buddy with a magic screwdriver... And he used me likewise for my own specialties.

[sneakypete]

The Feebs had the laptop for how many months (?) and did nothing.  They are on the same "side" as they ever were since O'Bastard turned the agency into Dems R Us.

@Cyber Liberty

"Obomber"???? Try "King FDR".

Old J.Edgar knew how to stay in power.

[roamer_1]

It's my understanding that the shop owner in a genius move....MADE A COPY OF THE HARD DRIVE...and gave that owner to Rudy Giuliani...who gave a copy to the New York Post.

Has nothing to do with the FBI receiving the laptop.

Had it been simply given to the FBI, it might have disappeared down the rabbit hole.

@DCPatriot

That's not so bright... that's just what you do. You never make ANY change to the original drive. Just a raw copy over to a functional drive, and do your repairs there. So it is just part of the furniture that the shop made an image.

[Cyber Liberty]

It's my understanding that the shop owner in a genius move....MADE A COPY OF THE HARD DRIVE...and gave that owner to Rudy Giuliani...who gave a copy to the New York Post.

Has nothing to do with the FBI receiving the laptop.

Had it been simply given to the FBI, it might have disappeared down the rabbit hole.

I once was given a hard drive to "hold" for a guy.  I made an image in case something happened.  He reclaimed the drive, and was eventually murdered, along with his wife (by a Cult).  Nobody was interested in the image.

[Cyber Liberty]

@DCPatriot

That's not so bright... that's just what you do. You never make ANY change to the original drive. Just a raw copy over to a functional drive, and do your repairs there. So it is just part of the furniture that the shop made an image.

In this case, the person making the image was also the owner of the drive because the laptop was abandoned.

[mountaineer]

FOOL NELSON  @FOOL_NELSON
Key takeaways from John Paul Mac Isaac interview:

1. He reached out to trusted friends to put him in touch with the @FBI

2. The Baltimore FBI (Jen Boone) approached him unannounced and he gave them the laptop

3. When he was worried the FBI weren't going forward, he reached out to an intermediary that put him in touch with Robert Costello, @RudyGiuliani's lawyer

4. He wouldn't have recognized Hunter at the time of the dropoff, but he assumes it was him

5. He completely supports the @nypost story and has no problem with what Giuliani did

6. Hunter had a very messy desktop, and Isaac has reported people to the authorities before for child porn, etc.

7. The interviewers are scum and heartbroken that the emails/info are real

CLARIFICATION: What I meant in the first tweet was that his friends went to the FBI agents that they trusted and then Baltimore agents approached him. Isaac did not reach out to the FBI directly was my point.

OTHER CLARIFICATION: Isaac didn't find child porn, just other shady stuff, like the emails and crack.

https://twitter.com/FOOL_NELSON/status/1316836044071989249

[roamer_1]

In this case, the person making the image was also the owner of the drive because the laptop was abandoned.

Well maybe. It was in there for recovery work, from what I gather... normal protocol would be to pull an image right off the bat and use that RAW image to populate a working drive and run diags to determine the recovery scenario, and maybe even attempt a pull, just to be able to call the client and discuss the price. The original image is always retained on my server, as often you have to blow it onto a drive more than once to get a final pull.

So probably the image was taken right off the bat. Either way, the image would not be considered his property anyway, residing on the shop's server.

[mystery-ak]

 October 15, 2020 | by Tom Pappert

After the New York Post published shocking revelations that Hunter Biden leveraged Joe Biden’s position and influence to make money in Ukraine and a series of photos showing Hunter apparently in the throes of a drug binge, the computer shop owner who transferred the data to both the FBI and Rudy Giuliani spoke to the media in a nearly hour-long audio interview.

John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of a Mac computer repair store in Delaware who came into possession of an abandoned laptop previously owned by Hunter, spoke to the media for nearly an hour, and suggested there is far more content than what the Post published, including illegal content, and said that he fears for his life because of the content on the hard drive. Isaac also hinted that the FBI is covering up the contents on the laptop as a political favor to the Biden family, and claimed that the FBI warned him not to go public with the information in his possession.

At one point in the interview, Isaac explained that during his career as a computer repair professional, he once encountered child porn when repairing a man’s computer and immediately called the police. He compared that to this incident, and said that while he did not see child porn on Hunter’s computer, he saw illegal materials and  discussions of illegal activities that made him believe his “life would be in danger.”

more
https://nationalfile.com/shock-man-who-had-hunter-bidens-laptop-suggests-theres-more-hints-at-fbi-coverup-fears-being-assassinated/

[Cyber Liberty]

Well maybe. It was in there for recovery work, from what I gather... normal protocol would be to pull an image right off the bat and use that RAW image to populate a working drive and run diags to determine the recovery scenario, and maybe even attempt a pull, just to be able to call the client and discuss the price. The original image is always retained on my server, as often you have to blow it onto a drive more than once to get a final pull.

So probably the image was taken right off the bat. Either way, the image would not be considered his property anyway, residing on the shop's server.

Biden's abandoning the computer was the icing on the legal cake.

[Wingnut]

Biden's abandoning the computer was the icing on the legal cake.

I was thinking...there must be a "Claim Ticket" for the said laptop(s).  Even the dry cleaners give you one when you drop your dirty laundry?

[roamer_1]

Biden's abandoning the computer was the icing on the legal cake.

Sure. The minute it hit a mechanic's lien - Not exactly a lien because it is not a documented legal thing like it would be to take the title of a car or house... In smalls, if you abandon an item for 90 or 120 days, it just automatically becomes the property of the shop or property you left it at... Whether leased space, or unrequited (verbal) contract...

I always hold them for 120 days to make sure, with notice sent at 90 days.

[roamer_1]

I was thinking...there must be a "Claim Ticket" for the said laptop(s).  Even the dry cleaners give you one when you drop your dirty laundry?

There should be a work order with initial plans wrt scope and with evidence of a down-payment (wherein the work order operates as the receipt). So yeah, the client receives a copy, and the original should be in the shop records.