Thousands of athletes, officials and reporters travelling to china for upcoming winter olympics risk having their online communications hacked through the official ap. Many media freedoms organizations are recommending people bring a burner phone to china. I think you might want to toss your phone to the track after playing in these capes. Think that's probably the right advice because if you bring a a device you put on the wire by chances are you going home with some amount of chinese malory on your system. And thats can take data back.
The Games don’t begin until February 4, but the drama around the pandemic, free speech, and diplomatic boycotts has been building for months. NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.
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