(10-20-2020, 09:11 PM)mikesez Wrote: You don't know who I am.  You don't know who Marty is.  All you have is text. What makes you think Marty is honest about himself but I'm not?
If you give me the benefit of the doubt, that I am who I say I am, what remains to indicate bad faith?
Do you assume that if I was in good faith I would accept your arguments? That's not what good faith means.  Our perspectives might be too different for that.

Of course I don't know who you are outside of this board. That's why I'm speaking about the person you portray here. You admit you don't even show your real self here, so why would I give you the benefit of the doubt that you're who you say you are?

Jeez, mike, this is what I'm talking about. I just said why I think you argue in bad faith, but you misrepresented it and make it something else. C'mon, man.

I'm not going to distract from the thread, however.

(10-20-2020, 09:24 PM)mikesez Wrote: The feds don't play around with child porn.  The arrests are immediate.  If they had a reliable chain of custody for that hard drive, and there was child porn on it, arrests would have been made long ago.
Either
There is no hint of CP on that computer
Or
They have no idea who added what data to it. 
Either way, it's a weaker story than you think.

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You're wrong and in denial. 

The arrests are not immediate. They have to apply for search warrants for the devices, court orders for the service provides, and subsequent search warrants for the information given to them from the providers. Then they have to apply for more search warrants for any and all accounts found related to the stuff they find on the computer. You're simply uninformed about this stuff.

As for your one or the other, why then would Giuliani also provide it to the Delaware State Police and the FBI if it didn't have it on there? FBI can determine exactly when and where it was uploaded to the hard drive. Certain things can make it more difficult, but they can conclusively determine if it was uploaded before or after it was given to the computer repair shop.

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