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US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip (techcrunch.com)

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why throw them away?

Good counterintelligence would be to get as many as possible and reverse engineer them.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 26 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I wouldn't be surprised if we fired everybody who could do that.

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[–] Longylonglong@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah that's pretty much admitting that you are too dumb to handle them

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