US Athletes Are Being Urged To Bring Burner Phones To Beijing For The Olympics, So Let The Shenanigans Commence
Sandra Montanez. Getty Images.Cnet - US athletes heading to the Winter Olympics next month in Beijing have reportedly been told to leave their personal phones behind amid security concerns.
Team USA has encouraged Americans competing in the games to instead take burner phones to prevent potential surveillance, according to a Friday report from The Wall Street Journal.
This appears to be pretty much the standard procedure for any company sending employees over to China for business. Which makes sense considering the Chinese government is addicted to spying. Your phone knows you better than anybody on the planet, and the moment you'd connect your phone to Chinese servers then they'd know more than everything about you as well. Nothing would be worse than being an athlete who trained their whole lives to get to the Olympics only to then hand over all of their personal information to the Chinese government.
But an excuse for the athletes to now be as sneaky as possible in the Olympic village? Say less.
Granted I'm sure that every single inch of every single room in the Olympic village will be bugged. Cameras and microphones hidden everywhere. But just cover your face and use code names. Throw some extra sneak in your freak. Every bang will be like a James Bond movie.
Or it could be an absolutely miserable experience for 2 weeks where you can't leave a single thing in your room and you have to watch over your shoulder every moment when you're not competing. It's probably pretty hard to stay in the mood when you have to worry about a government official barging into the room at any moment to haul you away butt ass naked. On second thought, it'll probably suck to be the athletes at these Olympics. But the burner phone idea is a good one to keep in the arsenal for years to come. Better safe than sorry.