I have no relevant links. This new material seems to be from a disk image--which would include the free space on the laptop containing things like deleted files, previous versions of files, things in RAM when the laptop entered hibernation or used virtual memory, and encrypted hidden volumes--created by the whistleblower. Previously leaked data is likely available on a Tor onion service, but I haven't looked.
Anyway, to the people reading down this far in the thread, the people who control the u/Primate98 account are part of a fear campaign. It's rather ingenious, actually: it is impossible for Hunter Biden to be held accountable for the illegal porn he created or possessed, but they are using it to threaten dire consequences to researchers willing and able to look into the data to investigate crimes committed by him, his father the president and other wealthy, powerful people.
It now appears to me that a file recovery tool like Recuva was used. While only 200 GB remains on a 500 GB drive with 300 GB of used space on it, tools like this can report original file sizes of deleted files even when they are not recoverable due to them being overwritten. If you add up all of those original file sizes, they can exceed the capacity of the drive. Not all of it will be recoverable, though.
It is definitely worth it to see if anything recoverable is in the 200 GB of free space on the disk image. Even file fragments can be important. That's why we need a large number of people contributing to the effort--a manual analysis of the bytes would yield more information than a file recovery tool can provide.
We will await your post with links. Thanks!
I have no relevant links. This new material seems to be from a disk image--which would include the free space on the laptop containing things like deleted files, previous versions of files, things in RAM when the laptop entered hibernation or used virtual memory, and encrypted hidden volumes--created by the whistleblower. Previously leaked data is likely available on a Tor onion service, but I haven't looked.
Anyway, to the people reading down this far in the thread, the people who control the u/Primate98 account are part of a fear campaign. It's rather ingenious, actually: it is impossible for Hunter Biden to be held accountable for the illegal porn he created or possessed, but they are using it to threaten dire consequences to researchers willing and able to look into the data to investigate crimes committed by him, his father the president and other wealthy, powerful people.
Hunter Laptop Computer Repairman Says No Way 450 Gigs of Additional Data Was Included on Hunter’s Laptop…UPDATE
This is a nice update.
It now appears to me that a file recovery tool like Recuva was used. While only 200 GB remains on a 500 GB drive with 300 GB of used space on it, tools like this can report original file sizes of deleted files even when they are not recoverable due to them being overwritten. If you add up all of those original file sizes, they can exceed the capacity of the drive. Not all of it will be recoverable, though.
It is definitely worth it to see if anything recoverable is in the 200 GB of free space on the disk image. Even file fragments can be important. That's why we need a large number of people contributing to the effort--a manual analysis of the bytes would yield more information than a file recovery tool can provide.