So who has the original laptops? BTW - THREE laptops were dropped off for repair. Why did Rudy contact Maxey to get into the hard drive? Did he get all three hard drives? Whether you like Maxey or not there are a lot of questions here and I’m very suspicious that they are trying to discredit him. Usually means someone is over the target. He has a team of computer hackers and Bannon and Rudy both trust him so I would hold fire just yet.
Also he divorced his wife in 2009 - seems a stretch connecting him to her activities now.
Well I don't have a clue where the original laptop is or who is holding them. I suspect they are still in the hands of the whitehats.
What I found most interesting was the proof that Dave offered. The laptop was known to have a 500 MB hard drive, 200 MB was used by the data on the drive when Rudy had it, and yet some how Maxey has found 450 MB of hidden and deleted data. He is a blackhat disinformation agent, and he is not even particulary good at it.
In my opinion he probably doesn't even have a copy of the laptop or he would have known not to tell a whopper about that many MB of previous unknown files. Just about anyone that has ever used a computer can tell you they wouldn't fit on the hard drive with the data already found and replicated to other drives.
I also trust Dave and his information about a thousand times more than I would trust the bullshitter Maxey.
I thought that, for example, if you have a 1 gb hard drive, and you download a 500 mb movie, then delete it, then download another, and delete it, that even though no space is taken up, you still have those two 500 mb movies buried somewhere deep in there. Is that not the case?
So even though the hard drive is only so large, that doesn’t mean many kids gigs worth of stuff aren’t still buried deep in the computer.
Am I way off?
If you downloaded the two movies you filled the drive to its capacity. When you deleted them you freed up that room for more data, but until you started adding that data the movies still exist. The movies are only truly wiped out when data is added that overwrites the space they were taking. If you filled the drive again without deleting anything the movies would be deleted. There was 200MB of existing data on the laptop. The most that could have been remaining of any deleted data would have been 300MB not the 450MB that Maxey claimed to have recently discovered. He is either lying, or Dave's source is lying. I had already suspected Maxey was lying before Dave revealed his history, and that pretty much confirmed my suspicions.
So who has the original laptops? BTW - THREE laptops were dropped off for repair. Why did Rudy contact Maxey to get into the hard drive? Did he get all three hard drives? Whether you like Maxey or not there are a lot of questions here and I’m very suspicious that they are trying to discredit him. Usually means someone is over the target. He has a team of computer hackers and Bannon and Rudy both trust him so I would hold fire just yet. Also he divorced his wife in 2009 - seems a stretch connecting him to her activities now.
Well I don't have a clue where the original laptop is or who is holding them. I suspect they are still in the hands of the whitehats.
What I found most interesting was the proof that Dave offered. The laptop was known to have a 500 MB hard drive, 200 MB was used by the data on the drive when Rudy had it, and yet some how Maxey has found 450 MB of hidden and deleted data. He is a blackhat disinformation agent, and he is not even particulary good at it.
In my opinion he probably doesn't even have a copy of the laptop or he would have known not to tell a whopper about that many MB of previous unknown files. Just about anyone that has ever used a computer can tell you they wouldn't fit on the hard drive with the data already found and replicated to other drives.
I also trust Dave and his information about a thousand times more than I would trust the bullshitter Maxey.
I thought that, for example, if you have a 1 gb hard drive, and you download a 500 mb movie, then delete it, then download another, and delete it, that even though no space is taken up, you still have those two 500 mb movies buried somewhere deep in there. Is that not the case? So even though the hard drive is only so large, that doesn’t mean many kids gigs worth of stuff aren’t still buried deep in the computer. Am I way off?
Depends. Was it a SSD or a HDD? SSD have wear leveling. HDD tend to put stuff in the quickest accessible portion.
Do we know if Hunter's laptop used disk compression?
If you downloaded the two movies you filled the drive to its capacity. When you deleted them you freed up that room for more data, but until you started adding that data the movies still exist. The movies are only truly wiped out when data is added that overwrites the space they were taking. If you filled the drive again without deleting anything the movies would be deleted. There was 200MB of existing data on the laptop. The most that could have been remaining of any deleted data would have been 300MB not the 450MB that Maxey claimed to have recently discovered. He is either lying, or Dave's source is lying. I had already suspected Maxey was lying before Dave revealed his history, and that pretty much confirmed my suspicions.