[edwinland]

Well somebody is lying. The Miami Herald reported as follows:

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)"

[colorado tanker]

Better call Abbie at NCIS. Oh, wait, she doesn’t work there anymore . . .

[Sgt_Schultze]

What kind of government issued computer executes autorun commands on removable media?

[yesthatjallen]

Yes, that's the article.

It sounded fishy; a fake story to make Trumps' Secret Service look bad and question security at MaL.

I can't image a secret service agent would be dumb enough to plug a flash drive into his computer. I suspect the average computer user knows enough not to do such a thing.

install files, a “very out-of-the-ordinary” - Strange computer terminology.

The original story seems odd but who knows.

[Tucker39]

Any so-called security specialist who would insert an unknown chinese thumb drive into his computer, is no brighter than a lunkhead who looks down the bore of a handgun while checking whether the gun is loaded!

[daniel1212]

event that he had never seen happen before during this kind of analysis.

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)

Actually it was evidently a purposeful "analysis," with a laptop that likely was designed for this and was quickly used to obtain evidence of malicious behavior. And i am sure they know how to scan, analyze and remove the infection, and further testing would likely allow the USB drive to fully install what it has, for complete analysis.

However, budget cuts have resulted in only a few of the most advanced models:

[Rembrandt]

“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)”’

You really shouldn’t get into things that you don’t understand. In all likelihood, that thumb drive is now at Fort Meade and is being decrypted. The results will not be shared with you and Edwinland can continue on its blind path to oblivion.