US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
US orders travelers on Air Force One to throw away gifts, pins, and burner phones after China trip
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Well, at least we’re still paranoid.
Fresh tin foil hats for everyone… 1B is tax payer hats for all the billionaires
Sensible move
Rude. Could always keep them in a Faraday cage
I’m still getting a chuckle out of Trump trying to read Xi’s notebook when he got up at a meal. “Ah, just as I suspected, this is all in Chinese. I think Xi might be Chinese!”
This should be standard operating procedure for anyone traveling to/from China, but doubly so for anyone in government or working for any business that isn’t a restaurant or some other low importance business.
Same for anyone of even remote importance visiting the US.
I’m fairly certain we’re at the stage of being able to embed listening devices into a business card.
Send them to the lab for testing
Bug detectors don’t work anymore?
As an aside, The Uk advises officials travelling to the USA are also advised to use burner phones
but Airforce One itself is perfectly safe
This has been a rule for a long time. If you were taking things into China in 2006, it was assumed it was being copied and or bugged.
Edit: things I meant electronics.
Giant plane from Quatar though? Nope, nah, that one can stay. We totally got that one figured out. No way anyone could hide something in an incredibly complex gilded flying machine. Super okay for the president of the united states to use.
The plane being one of those gifts that should have been thrown away is the irony of all ironies omg lol
if the Chinese painted some pins in gold there is no way he hands them out
The first wise decision to come out from the current administration. I’m confident someone(s) in US leadership will be fired soon for this.
That’s the wrong play. Whisper fun things into the trinkets.
Nothing new. We were doing this back in 2006 when out there on corporate trips.
But Trump got to keep a whole airplane.
I wonder if there is already surveillance technology that the visitors potentially swallowed in their food.
You really think Pete is going to be able to part with that solid gold microphone they gave him?
Why would anyone accept any of that in the first place?
You know it’s all spy tech
Xi could probably call Trump and he’d tell them whatever they wanted to know. 🍊🤡
I would imagine that’s standard security practice, no?
This is standard practice in the business world when visiting China.