I have transcribed the audio from this video clip of Rudy Giuliani performing an examination of one of the alleged Hunter Biden laptops. We don’t see the screen so I’ve attempted to figure out, and explain, what he’s seeing and doing.
Evidence stomping
Giuliani’s investigation methodology violates every principle of digital forensic analysis. His clumsy digging around has hopelessly altered, tainted, and mangled the disk’s data and metadata. Verifying those laptops is probably impossible.
What is going on with the Biden data?
There is some confusion on my part. Originally the story was: the MacBook got water(?) damaged and the data was salvaged onto an external drive. Then it became about laptops and a hard drive. What is where?
It’s a convoluted mess
Regarding the water damaged MacBook. I don’t understand how Giuliani has working (alleged) Biden MacBook with the Biden data. Wasn’t that laptop busted because of the water? If so then how is Giuliani able to login to the MacBook and poke around?
Giuliani Performs: FBI agent opens a MacBook
[Biden]s computer. Here’s the computer. I’m gonna open it now. For the first… This is the FBI opening it for the first time.
{{ Giuliani is giving a little performance of “The FBI investigates the Hunter Biden Laptop.” He walks us through the clues and evidence we, as the FBI, discover. Needless to say, his imagined FBI examination is farcical. }}
It says Robert Hunter. I know the password, of course.
{{ Giuliani’s at the login prompt where he finds some evidence: the display name for the user — Robert Hunter. He pecks at one or two keys, hits enter and… he’s in! }}
Now I’m gonna open the computer, and on the right hand side, you know, like the legends on the first page of the computer.
{{ Giuliani seems to use “the first page of the computer” to mean the Desktop, and he says “legends” for icons. Cyber security expert. }}
There’s one that says Hunter Burisma emails waiting to upload.
{{ On the first page of the computer, Rudy Giuliani discovers a clue. One of the legends on the right hand side is labeled: “Hunter Burisma emails waiting to upload.” }}
Concluding thoughts
Rudy Giuliani gets what is allegedly Hunter Biden’s laptop. Giuliani unlocks it using the two character long password, and there on the desktop staring him in the face is a folder — “Hunter Burisma emails ready for upload.”
That’s their story and they’re sticking to it.
“And they believe it, because passion with a good voice
Passes as fact to like half of those who hear the noise”
– Kai Straw on the song “Slaughterhouse”