Migrating without the capacity to roll back is simply unheard-of these days.įurthermore, why did the planned migration continue after the Secret Service received a data-retention notice from Congress on January 16? Was that notice not transmitted to the IT department? Were the Secret Service’s lawyers unaware of the retention notice-to say nothing of the agency’s obligations under federal law to preserve records for the National Archives?ĭavid A. Nobody who isn’t trying to conceal something wants to lose message history-not for messages about January 6 and not for more mundane ones about, say, procurement or leave approval.
#Photo sense and non sense update
But best practice today for any system update is for the new system to be backward-compatible with older systems. Secret Service officials told The Washington Post that the deletions were not malicious-that they were simply part of a phone-system update. At worst, the parade of errors is indicative of darker motivations. At best, the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence at an agency that is supposed to be a sophisticated cyberactor, charged with investigating cybercrimes. The entire episode is now under criminal investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.Īlmost nothing about this episode makes sense.
Skeptical observers suspect a cover-up of the agency’s errors, and more apocalyptic critics see the data deletion as part of a possible conspiracy to support President Donald Trump’s attempted coup. The Secret Service says that the deletions came about as part of a routine, long-planned update to its phone system and that, as part of this update, it factory-reset its agents’ mobile devices, deleting all data. This guy’s never heard of Smartphones.The United States Secret Service is reported to have permanently deleted or lost a host of data, including text messages, that relate to the January 6 insurrection. Why is this woman being gently caressed by not one but two wild animals?Ģ4. OMG, another wind machine! What is the deal?!Ģ1. We’re all about an exercise ball, but you might wanna change out of your business attire first.Ģ0. Why is she sleeping on a bed in the middle of the woods?ġ8.
Ummm, we’d rather have real ice cream.ġ7. Is the hat magically suspended? Did she throw it? What’s going on here?ġ5. These two things should not be juxtaposed.ġ4. It’s gonna be hard to drink a glass of wine through your fake cow head, lady.ġ2. This man looks absolutely terrified to be inside this large egg. Just a typical Friday night for most people, right?ġ0. For those rare occasions when you get caught head-on in a wind machine.Ĩ. Just in case you were looking for a photo of “sad bride in a messy shack after the wedding, with a cat.”Ħ. Wait, why did these people set up their office in the middle of a lake?Ģ. MORE: 5 Rules to Get More Instagram Followersįor no real reason other than to laugh, we rounded up 25 stock photos that have us scratching our heads. And yet–there are so many stock photos out there that seem to illustrate no point any sane person would ever make. This particular kind of photography aims to provide imagery that helps illustrate a point that words alone won’t suffice to illustrate. One of the most consistently entertaining aspects of working in media is seeing the endless supply of strange, hilarious, and downright inexplicable stock photos that exist in the world.
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