Originally Posted by
redbeard911
One of our partners has a contingent going to Beijing for the Paras, and they were told not to take BlackBerrys because the Chinese are scanning them while going through security and taking e-mails and other information...EVEN IF THE BATTERY IS REMOVED. They were all issued generic cell phones for use in Beijing. This sounds like a load of hogwash to me.
Why does it sound like hogwash?
Do you think they don't have extra batteries that they can just pop in your BB if they want to get the data off of it?
Considering how many people in various federal government agencies and such have BBs, they are a great potential source of secret information.