In the court of public opinion, the standard is not "100% proven beyond any reasonable doubt". Hence, blackmail can still be very effective if an accusation is highly plausible.
I am not sure why the DKIM for all emails were not released, or why this did not catch more media coverage by other news organizations I consider more reliable (like NYT).
Thank you for this link, this did not come across my radar.
From your link:
> The only way the email could have been faked is if someone hacked into Google's servers, found the private key, and used it to reverse engineer the email's DKIM signature, Graham, said.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-fixes-major-gmail-bug-s... is from Aug 2020 and discusses an SPF/DMARC vulnerability that was in Google since forever (and though reported 4 months before public disclosure, was fixed only 7 hours after public disclosure). The last google DKIM bug I'm aware of was in 2012, so I can't counter the specific claim about DKIM with evidence, but the assertion that "the only way to spoof x is to hack and get the private key" is not any absolute truth.
(P.S: I have seen no denial nor confirmation about the authenticity of the Hunter Biden data - only claims of Russian involvement. Make of that what you will. The DKIM is circumstantial data until there is confirmation or denial - especially, as you say, it's not all released).
Sure, you raise very important points. I just found it weird that NYPost was happy just releasing the emails and not the DKIM, and when one was validated, it received literally no coverage. I thought it might catch steam after the election, but the literal silence is surprising to me.
I am not insinuating any wrongdoing from anyone, just bringing it to your attention, as you claimed to not know about it.
I just did, and I have less than 15 related results in the first 4 pages, only two of which are sources I've ever heard of before (washingtonexaminer and nypost). I'm logged out of google, but it's been a while since I deleted my cookies.
I've read literally hundreds of pieces on the hunter biden laptop, about half of them from republican leaning outlets, (I try to keep a balanced diet....) and none of them mentioned DKIM validation.
(For the record: I don't live in the US, I don't watch television, but I do try to keep a balanced news diet)