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The thing that no one seems to point out is that just about any normal person carrying around a windows USB stick is likely to have malware on it. Just possessi

The thing that no one seems to point out is that just about any normal person carrying around a windows USB stick is likely to have malware on it. Just possessing a bad USB stick doesn't seem to be particularly incriminating by itself.

ceejayoz 8y ago
True, but there's a lot more going on here than "had a USB stick". > She was caught by the Secret Service with four cellphones, a laptop, cash, an external hard drive, a signals detector to spot hidden cameras, and a thumb drive.
- joering2 8y ago
  That's exactly how I travel to tech-related summits around the world, and I have nothing to do with espionage I assure you. I have 3 cellphones - one private (family calls, face time etc), one CDMA phone and one separate GSM for the most of EU countries. And external SSD drive with all my important backups and projects that would take forever to download off of DropBox. And yes - recently even cheap signal detector, as I don't want to be watched in my hotel room, even only for "security reasons" as to whether I will demolish the room or not. (call me paranoid but so was I before Snowden files and I was proven right) I usually carry about $3,000 USD total in different currency - usually 20% AUD, 20% CAD, 30% USD and rest EUR/GBP. Trust me so many times paying with cash comes to be much cheaper, and at some occasions the only way to go! Yes, thumb drive too; usually empty so that if I am at the meeting and someone wants to send me some heavy files, I can give them my thumb and viola! If all this makes me a spy then I definitely need to change my profession :|
  - ceejayoz 8y ago
    > That's exactly how I travel to tech-related summits around the world, and I have nothing to do with espionage I assure you. Do you typically sneak into these summits, telling the security staff a variety of lies to do so?
    - joering2 8y ago
      “Sneaking” can be anything. If her mother tounge wasn’t english and she couldn’t communicate with SS, obviously they assumed the worst; that’s what they are paid for. So no wonder they stated she sneaked in. Also as a tourist you could wander in hotel with foreign signs and they will asume you sneaked in as well.
  - Taniwha 8y ago
    Yup, I travel with a laptop, 2 phones, thumb drives, baggies of different currencies, random mysterious circuit boards .. and I'm not a spy either
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- thinkingemote 8y ago
  Most of that is what was in her hotel room, not what she was caught with.

ceejayoz 8y ago

True, but there's a lot more going on here than "had a USB stick". > She was caught by the Secret Service with four cellphones, a laptop, cash, an external hard drive, a signals detector to spot hidden cameras, and a thumb drive.

joering2 8y ago
That's exactly how I travel to tech-related summits around the world, and I have nothing to do with espionage I assure you. I have 3 cellphones - one private (family calls, face time etc), one CDMA phone and one separate GSM for the most of EU countries. And external SSD drive with all my important backups and projects that would take forever to download off of DropBox. And yes - recently even cheap signal detector, as I don't want to be watched in my hotel room, even only for "security reasons" as to whether I will demolish the room or not. (call me paranoid but so was I before Snowden files and I was proven right) I usually carry about $3,000 USD total in different currency - usually 20% AUD, 20% CAD, 30% USD and rest EUR/GBP. Trust me so many times paying with cash comes to be much cheaper, and at some occasions the only way to go! Yes, thumb drive too; usually empty so that if I am at the meeting and someone wants to send me some heavy files, I can give them my thumb and viola! If all this makes me a spy then I definitely need to change my profession :|
- ceejayoz 8y ago
  > That's exactly how I travel to tech-related summits around the world, and I have nothing to do with espionage I assure you. Do you typically sneak into these summits, telling the security staff a variety of lies to do so?
  - joering2 8y ago
    “Sneaking” can be anything. If her mother tounge wasn’t english and she couldn’t communicate with SS, obviously they assumed the worst; that’s what they are paid for. So no wonder they stated she sneaked in. Also as a tourist you could wander in hotel with foreign signs and they will asume you sneaked in as well.
- Taniwha 8y ago
  Yup, I travel with a laptop, 2 phones, thumb drives, baggies of different currencies, random mysterious circuit boards .. and I'm not a spy either
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thinkingemote 8y ago
Most of that is what was in her hotel room, not what she was caught with.