Comment Chinese Visitors May Carry Spy Gear to the West (Score 1) 334
My son's physics class was visited by 3 Chinese teachers. As they walked into the classroom, his Macbook Air crashed. He tells me he was in gmail at the time. His laptop has never had a kernel crash before or since.
Does this story prove anything? No. But it is conceivable that visiting teachers carry laptops that probe and spoof software such as gmail that the government has a keen interest in cracking. The teachers may be completely unaware of why their laptops seem to discharge batteries in a few hours even when the lids are closed.