I assume in this case the user was not using all the security features available.<p>Even if you did have some password or whatever; asking someone to recover files for you would include giving them that information to enable them to do the job you're asking them to do.
Seems like that <i>"water-damaged MacBook Pro"</i> belonging to Hunter Biden was not disinformation all this time.<p>Not really a surprise [0] since the media knows how to coordinate a professional cover-up of a story and scream: <i>'Fake News'</i>, <i>'Disinformation'</i> or what ever when in fact they are the spreader of their own lies and biased propaganda.<p>So this is just another way for them to orchestrate a cover up and silence any criticism. So there you go.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813673" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813673</a>