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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by Yajirobe on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:17PM (#25689846)
did you see the photos of the rioters? Do you really believe they are that tech-savy?
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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by ViViDboarder on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:24PM (#25689940)
One or two hiding in the crowd could be enough. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was at least one spy from some adversarial nation.

From a security perspective, I think they will need to assume everything is potentially compromised and go from there. Remote wipe, scan for microphones and cameras, etc.

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by eftychis on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:29PM (#25690011)
The idea here is some foreign actor agent (that could be a U.S. citizen by the way) could have participated in storming/ breaking and entering the capitol.

Looks can be deceiving.

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by impartial-word on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:13PM (#25690594)
It happened in Russia, when KGB agents got access to the US embassy as firemen during an actual fire

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-01-mn-1029-s...

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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by asdff on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:30PM (#25690774)
It happened in east germany when western intellegence agents were the some of the first to enter the Stasi hq
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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by suifbwish on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:44PM (#25690206)
Do you often judge people by their appearances ?
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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by heavyset_go on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:29PM (#25691369)
I saw highly compensated business owners, lawyers, and IT professionals in the mob.
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Re:Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S... by jjkaczor on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:23PM (#25689930)
Probably not, they planned all of this on open sites/forums/social-media platforms, so they are not the smartest people...
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