Ridiculous technology fakery
So the CIA uses a piece of pretty stunning software that identifies two computers in a room in Germany which are not connected to a network. This is even displayed on the software interface. The operative then sees that there is a phone in the room which is connected to a network, presumably cellular. This phone belongs to the German and therefore is presumably activated on a German telecom's network. Somehow she can access this device (obviously illegally) and "use it to delete the files" which are currently located on a laptop which is not connected to any network. This alone is ludicrous, but add to that the fact that the files on the flash drive somehow alerted the CIA to the their own location, even though the laptop that the flash drive was connected to was not itself connected to a network, and what you're left with is nothing short of magic. I must have missed the scene where they put a voodoo curse on the files as they were being downloaded. Oh, and we have at least one use of the magical enhance feature used on blurry camera footage to determine a person's identity. Blurry image? Just click enhance! And it only takes one keystroke! That kind of makes you wonder why the guy displaying the image on screen needed to be given the "enhance" command by a superior. Couldn't they have just clicked that one button themselves?
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