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Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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Re: Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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The 4 cell phones thing and her sketchy story is suspicious. But anyone could have malware on a USB stick. Especially from China.

That said this sounds way too sloppy for state espionage. Maybe it’s private? Or they are recruiting way too many people and let some bad ones in.

Re: Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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post #2

The 4 cell phones thing and her sketchy story is suspicious. But anyone could have malware on a USB stick. Especially from China. That said this sounds way too sloppy for state espionage. Maybe it’s private? Or they are recruiting way too many people and let some bad ones in.

It does seem like a sloppy attempt at espionage. But perhaps it worked in the past.

Re: Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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post #2

The 4 cell phones thing and her sketchy story is suspicious. But anyone could have malware on a USB stick. Especially from China. That said this sounds way too sloppy for state espionage. Maybe it’s private? Or they are recruiting way too many people and let some bad ones in.

Trojan horse? Distract Secret Service agents with a clueless decoy while the real spies are sneaking around out back. Seems to be a subplot in lots of action movies.

Re: Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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post #2

The 4 cell phones thing and her sketchy story is suspicious. But anyone could have malware on a USB stick. Especially from China. That said this sounds way too sloppy for state espionage. Maybe it’s private? Or they are recruiting way too many people and let some bad ones in.

Her story is completely nonsensical, she's an awful liar. Or, is pretending to be an awful liar. Perhaps she's clever and is pretending to be a hapless rube, in an effort to diminish her perceived culpability. With spy shit like this, either is a possibility.

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> She was allowed to enter by Secret Service agents stationed outside the resort after the Mar-a-Lago security manager on duty verified that her last name matched the surname of a member of the club, according to a complaint filed in federal district court in South Florida.

I mean, Zhang is a pretty common surname, so if that's the only checking they did this sounds pretty inadequate…

Re: Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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so, in summary for the article: journalists found that her story checks out. and it's related to an event organized by a prostitution entrepreneur who claims to have access to Trump, and the secret service filled in a report saying they have no idea of such event?

Re: Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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so, in summary for the article: journalists found that her story checks out. and it's related to an event organized by a prostitution entrepreneur who claims to have access to Trump, and the secret service filled in a report saying they have no idea of such event?

Lol, hang it up, kiddo.

Re: Woman from China Carrying Malware Arrested After Entering Mar-a-Lago

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The NYT article either leaves out that the woman was carrying Republic of China passports, or is erroneously conflating RoC and PRC.

it says "passaports". Do people from RoC must now have a PRC passport too after the recent occupation? I have no idea how passports work for people under the Taiwan political mess.
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