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marblar on Jan 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I opened a link some random person sent me and I g...

I think the point is that they could have just installed the malware since they had physical possession for an entire year.

tjoff on Jan 8, 2020 [–]

And the counterpoint is that he'd obviously got a new computer and any further surveillance would benefit from access to that one.

Timpy on Jan 9, 2020 | [–]

That's a good point. I was assuming the old hard drive was loaded on old equipment but that's not necessarily the case.

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