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Jan 18, 2022
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barnacle
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The US recently recommend athletes leave their phones at home.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-17/olympic-athletes-told-to-leave-phones-at-home-to-dodge-spying
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China trying to steal info off Olympic participants' phones?
Captain Rex
1/18/22 9:57am
Shocking
Spiff
1/18/22 9:58am
The US recently recommend athletes leave their phones at home.
barnacle
1/18/22 10:00am
I recommend we bail out and send our various teams to European locations for a
Q-grr
1/18/22 10:03am
Athletes would never go for it. Worked their whole lives to make it. They care zero about the politics of it.
Turnpike Lane
1/18/22 10:04am
This breach could go far beyond the athletes when all is said and done.
Q-grr
1/18/22 10:05am
security flaw, security feature. potato potahto.
Cougarclaw
1/18/22 10:01am
Can't believe the world keeps giving China any credibility at all.
crack
1/18/22 10:02am
I can:
CougarTailDevourer
1/18/22 10:09am
The US should give each of our athletes a phone to use while they are there.
rivercitycoug
1/18/22 10:02am
Last time I went to China, I brought a burner phone and laptop, with no logins..
Sock Gnome
1/18/22 10:04am
That’s good but I would have just hit them with a hammer and thrown them out.
ponys
1/18/22 10:06am
I sold the phone and laptop on ebay when I got back, as both were cheap anyway
Sock Gnome
1/18/22 10:08am
Nice
ponys
1/18/22 10:08am
I learned on Breaking Bad and BCS that all you have to do is break a flip-phone in half.
Sea Chicken
1/18/22 10:11am
I would just buy a cheap chromebook, break it in half after I'm done. Just because I want to do that.
CSoul
1/18/22 10:07am
I hope the USOC provides a burner phone for each athlete.
Division Bell
1/18/22 10:04am
Exactly
Turnpike Lane
1/18/22 10:07am
RE: China trying to steal info off Olympic participants' phones?
byubyu
1/18/22 10:06am
So just like TikTok
Sea Chicken
1/18/22 10:09am
The Chinese government is hardly even trying to maintain the illusion anymore.
Socrates Johnson
1/18/22 10:11am
Not sure what the point of that is, as China likely has access to many of the
CougarTailDevourer
1/18/22 10:14am
How does China get picked to host the Olympics? $$$
TO11
1/18/22 10:14am
If you go to China your devices will be hacked, everyone I know that travels to
germ1
1/18/22 10:17am
"Flaws"
fbguru
1/18/22 10:17am
I'd be more shocked if China wasn't trying to spy on them
maxpowers
1/18/22 10:20am
My niece's husband is in the Cybersecurity business and China is big into
Blue for Life
1/18/22 10:24am
China CANNOT be trusted. They hack everyone in their country. My parents lived
BlooCoog
1/18/22 11:04am
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