Monday, March 28, 2022

Why Did Hunter Biden Have DOD Encryption Keys On His Laptop?

Sam Faddis, a retired CIA Operations Officer who served in the Near East and South Asia, disclosed on Sunday that "The ongoing analysis of the hard drive of Hunter Biden's laptop" revealed the Defense Department encryption keys, and this was not an insignificant find: "These keys allow access to DOD email accounts and databases." As is characteristic of Hunter Biden from what we know of him already, he didn't just dabble; he went all in.

Why did Hunter Biden, who is not now and has never been a Defense Department employee, have any of these encryption keys at all?

Faddis explains that "The keys are known more formally as 'root encryption certificates.' Some of them appear to have unusually long expiration dates with many lasting twenty years or more. Such keys should not be present on a personal laptop of any kind, and there is no known reason that Hunter Biden would be in possession of them at all." No known reason.

Faddis noted that "The keys were discovered only recently by Jack Maxey's technical team working in Switzerland. Shortly after the discovery of the keys Maxey contacted the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland and reported that he had information that might compromise American national security and would like to talk to someone in the Regional Security Office to report what he had learned. His contact information was taken by the person with whom he spoke, but no one has ever called back to obtain the information in his possession." Wow, what a surprise! Why not? Could it possibly be that there are powerful people who don't want the full truth of Hunter and his laptop to come out?

Faddis reports that "An IT technical expert advising Maxey's team has speculated that the keys present on Hunter's laptop might have allowed Hunter to create throwaway email accounts on DOD servers and thereby route personal and business communications through those servers to escape detection. Such an arrangement would be in effect a much more sophisticated version of Hillary Clinton's use of her 'homebrew' server to evade monitoring of her communications while she was Secretary of State."

Faddis points out that the FBI has had Hunter's laptop "Since well before the 2020 election." Thus "If the information currently in Maxey's possession from DOD is correct and encryption keys giving access to DOD systems were still active until Maxey and his team discovered their presence and reported them, that would seem to suggest strongly that the FBI has never bothered to investigate what is on the hard drive." Well, sure.

Will we ever find out why Hunter Biden had Defense Department encryption keys on his laptop? Probably not, at least anytime soon.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/03/27/hunter-bidens-laptop-contained-defense-department-encryption-keys-n1584716 

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