That’s been my theory. He purposely water damaged them and dropped them off the get the data recovered, expecting all three were beyond saving. That way when the FBI came knocking (if that ever would have happened) he could argue it wasn’t destruction of evidence but just an unfortunate accident. That’s why he never went to pick them up. He didn’t really want the data, he just wanted to look like he was making a good faith effort to recover it.
I dont buy it. If someone wants to think and plan that far ahead, which is not crackhead behavior, they would also think to just buy blank drives, damage them, and have them repaired. If they failed, cover maintained. If successful, no one has anything damaging and you can buy new drives and repeat until you get the outcome you want.
"Crackhead forgot it" is just way too convenient, I agree. Maybe it was placed there by an operative to legitimize stolen data. But it absolutely is not false data.
It’s clearly his data, as evidenced by the iMessage content that’s been released. There’s always a possibility it’s stolen data laundered through the computer shop, but that depends on the shop owner turning it over to somebody. Maybe he was in on it, but if not it’s a lot of coincidence that has to go just right to get the data out there. At that point you may as well create a torrent with the disk image and push it out there for everyone to see.
Yup. His addiction issues are well known. Easy to blame the “accidental” destruction and failure to retrieve them on a junkie doing junkie things. Probably would have used it as an excuse for why he didn’t ask his dad’s IT guy (because I’m sure Joe has a guy to handle IT) to help him too.
Wonder if he dumped the laptop at the repair shop to hide it from the FBI
Hoping that the repair shop would eventually take it, wipe it then sell it?
That’s been my theory. He purposely water damaged them and dropped them off the get the data recovered, expecting all three were beyond saving. That way when the FBI came knocking (if that ever would have happened) he could argue it wasn’t destruction of evidence but just an unfortunate accident. That’s why he never went to pick them up. He didn’t really want the data, he just wanted to look like he was making a good faith effort to recover it.
I dont buy it. If someone wants to think and plan that far ahead, which is not crackhead behavior, they would also think to just buy blank drives, damage them, and have them repaired. If they failed, cover maintained. If successful, no one has anything damaging and you can buy new drives and repeat until you get the outcome you want.
"Crackhead forgot it" is just way too convenient, I agree. Maybe it was placed there by an operative to legitimize stolen data. But it absolutely is not false data.
Maybe he did put a new drive in and iCloud did it's magic with the new drive......
It’s clearly his data, as evidenced by the iMessage content that’s been released. There’s always a possibility it’s stolen data laundered through the computer shop, but that depends on the shop owner turning it over to somebody. Maybe he was in on it, but if not it’s a lot of coincidence that has to go just right to get the data out there. At that point you may as well create a torrent with the disk image and push it out there for everyone to see.
That's the kind of harebrained Rube Goldberg scheme to destroy a computer that you'd expect from a crackhead.
Also using the cover of his crack addiction to pretend like he was too distracted to remember.
Yup. His addiction issues are well known. Easy to blame the “accidental” destruction and failure to retrieve them on a junkie doing junkie things. Probably would have used it as an excuse for why he didn’t ask his dad’s IT guy (because I’m sure Joe has a guy to handle IT) to help him too.
You overestimated him. I believe that he genuinely forgot about it because he was a crackhead. His brain was f#%ked. He just bought a new one instead.
As someone who has had a drug problem in the past, dropping off something important then not picking it up is totally within reason.