So the Secret Service stuck Zhang's thumbdrive into their computer.

[MelissaB]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[lapfog_1]

1. clever

how about first mounting the thumb drive "read only" using a secure Linux system that is completely isolated from any network...

[hunter]

13. Exactly. What they reportedly did is WTF???

Heck, don't power up the thing at all until you know what it is.

Another possibility is this news itself is spy vs. spy disinformation.

They don't want the other side to know what they know.

Let them think their silly little dongle tried to do its job and self destructed.

[DontBooVote]

2. Jesus H. Christ! BUT HER EMAILS!!!

[gordianot]

3. Do not buy or use any Chinese manufacture thumb drive.

I made that mistake once and quickly learned my lesson.

[Locrian]

5. aren't pretty much ALL usb drives made in china? - n/t

[gordianot]

10. Apparently not as I learned the hard way.

[lagomorph777]

4. What is it down there at Mar-A-Bordello, everybody sticking their thumbs in Chinese

computers or whatever...

[blogslut]

6. Obligatory darth

Link to tweet

[FakeNoose]

7. What ... they've never heard of "sandboxy"?

[C_U_L8R]

8. D'oh !!!!

Geez... what the... oh for fux sake.

[awesomerwb1]

9. So what??

I'm sure all their computers have Kaspersky installed.

[Ilsa]

12. LOLOLOLOL.

The version of Kaspersky they use was a "special version" gift that the FSB had Kaspersky develop, just for The Donald's administration.

[LuvLoogie]

11. So that is going to be their excuse? NORAD got hacked?

If missiles come flying at our urban centers, all trump has to do is nothing.

[IndyOp]

14. The secret service agent...

who stuck the thumb drive into his own computer is as illogical and stupid as Trump.

[localroger]

15. Protip: Turn off autorun

I've cleaned up several infected thumb drives on my work PC, which always gets autorun turned off first thing when I upgrade the OS.

[lpbk2713]

16. This has been a capability of USB drives for decades.

Bad guys would buy smaller ones by the hundreds and install their malware on them and leave them in places where people would pick them up and try them on their own PC. Then they would wonder why their computer is acting funny ... if it worked at all.

I guess the Secret Service didn't get the memo.