Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoUS orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China triptechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square109linkfedilinkarrow-up1546arrow-down17cross-posted to: hackernews
arrow-up1539arrow-down1external-linkUS orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China triptechcrunch.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square109linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoWhy throw them away? Good counterintelligence would be to get as many as possible and reverse engineer them.
minus-squaredeathbird@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·2 months agoI wouldn’t be surprised if we fired everybody who could do that.
minus-squareLongylonglong@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoYeah that’s pretty much admitting that you are too dumb to handle them
Why throw them away?
Good counterintelligence would be to get as many as possible and reverse engineer them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we fired everybody who could do that.
Yeah that’s pretty much admitting that you are too dumb to handle them