Image of the week: Beijing bound
In just a hint that staging the winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing might not have been the best of the International Olympic Committee’s many brilliant ideas, athletes and officials set to converge on China have been advised to use burner phones while they’re there.
That’s because, according to cybersecurity group Citizen Lab, the official app that all Games attendees are obliged to use contains security weaknesses that leave users exposed to data breaches – a finding that certainly stifles any remaining warm glow from this year’s Olympic cauldron.
Meanwhile, in keeping with the prevailing mood, a Beijing 2022 official has declared that athletes who behave in a way that is deemed…
