When I read it, I thought it sounded ridiculous. My first thought was someone was planting a fake news story to make Trump and his Secret Service detail at Mar-a-Lago appear to be incompetent.
Given that the Sec Serv was run for 8 years by Caliph Baraq via Janet Icompitano and Jeh Johnson, nothing would surprise me.
Perhaps Chuck wants to leak the vulnerabilities?! I wouldn't tell him a thing. Better yet, it might be a good time to set a trap; e.g., leaving a basement window unlocked which feeds directly into a locked cell. Make it like a lobster trap.
Them there 12 to 16 year olds are computer wizards. Nothing they can’t do.
Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang on the day of her arrest, testified at the hearing. He stated that when another agent put Zhang’s thumb drive into his computer, it immediately began to install files, a “very out-of-the-ordinary” event that he had never seen happen before during this kind of analysis. The agent had to immediately stop the analysis to halt any further corruption of his computer, Ivanovich testified. The analysis is ongoing but still inconclusive, he said.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article228963409.html
This was a contemporaneous report of a public hearing so I doubt that they just made it up, though they could have edited his exact words to make it sound worse than it was.
However if the sense conveyed in the article is accurate, it does not sound like the work of a "special agent who received extensive training in computer forensics" and who underwent "a rigorous certification process" in an "internationally recognized" "Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program (ECSAP)"
????? Seems to me a bunch of Democrat noise, and arm flailing to try to create another negative illusion they can tie to the Trump Administration.
“Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Monday called on outgoing Secret Service Director Randolph Alles to testify about possible security vulnerabilities at the resort.”
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I’m just asking....what does that idiot have to gain about security vulnerabilities at the property of the one man he hates the most on this planet?
No, the Miami Herald's report seemed to indicate that a particular agent, Samuel Ivanovich, had carried out an incompetent forensic examination.
The Herald said this:
Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang on the day of her arrest, testified at the hearing. He stated that when another agent put Zhang’s thumb drive into his computer, it immediately began to install files, a “very out-of-the-ordinary” event that he had never seen happen before during this kind of analysis. The agent had to immediately stop the analysis to halt any further corruption of his computer, Ivanovich testified. The analysis is ongoing but still inconclusive, he said.
Sounds like amateur hour to me, but perhaps he specializes in digital forensics, and "his computer" was set up to do exactly this sort of analysis. If so, that information should have been in the article. Also, it seems odd that he apparently tried to analyze the original infected USB drive, and not a copy. Will the drive still be admissible in court as evidence?
“We interrogated them by holding a honey badger to their faces. Shane Dawson tried unspeakable things and was promptly euthanized.”