horde Yeah your right I am sorry that was my bad :). I was reading too many articles at once. What happened was I think I thought they had moved onto a different topic in the article but they were still talking about the California shooting. My apologies.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/15/us/thomas-crooks-trump-rally-shooting-invs/index.html
I did find this interesting though, it is still early in the investigation but they have already revealed he had an interest in computers in some way.
"Instead, the evidence they have found appears to show typical online activities including an interest in computer coding and gaming, the sources said — and that has raised more questions."
I am actually not sure I would characterise an interest in computer coding and gaming as "typical online activities" like this article did.
The average computer user is not involved in those activities especially not coding anyway. The reason I mention this is just because I wonder if some evidence was not recorded in the first place. I could be totally off base and reading way too much into that one paragraph though.
The interest in coding and gaming does not mean that he would have been knowledgeable about anti forensics topics though. It is possible they are still finding more and it has not been reported on of course. A counter point to what I am saying is that if he had been that knowledgeable about anti forensics in the first place he would likely have either wiped the phone and PC or used encryption with a strong passphrase which would have likely taken far longer than it did to get into these devices to collect evidence because you never know what evidence you forgot. I can see both sides of that and I mainly mentioned the live USB thing as a possibility, but it is pure speculation and we will likely not ever know. I just wanted you to know the reason why I thought he may be slightly more sophisticated than the average computer user but that was based on a part of an article that I might be slightly too focused on.