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Assuming this is all true - how does something like this leak? Wouldn't someone go to prison for the leak?
by elchin 6y ago
Assuming this is all true - how does something like this leak? Wouldn't someone go to prison for the leak?
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoReasonable possibility nobody involved signed an NDA or filled out any paperwork, given how unofficial it was. It's been fifteen years, it's likely the hardware in question is long deprecated in favor of covert hardware that looks like a modern smartphone or something.
- InitialLastName 6y agoRight, someone walking around carrying an iPod has gone from notable to mundane and back to notable. No longer the way to blend in.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoIt's also possibly one of the reasons we're so worried about Huawei here in the US right now: We know what our guys can do. We may know a fair bit about what China can or has done. And nobody wants to talk specifically about what those things are.
- obmelvin 6y agoI remember a couple years ago hearing a talk about using smartphone camera sensors to detect radiation levels - the idea of using such devices is out in the open now
- xxpor 6y agoUsing traditional film is more or less how radioactivity was discovered in the first place: https://www2.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/chapters/03/4.html https://www2.lbl.gov/abc/wallchart/chapters/03/4.html Using modern sensors seems like the logical extension of that.