Watch Your Stuff if You're Going to the Olympics

A travel warning for anyone planning to attend the Summer Olympics in China:

WASHINGTON - National security agencies are warning businesses and federal officials that laptops and e-mail devices taken to the Beijing Olympics are likely to be penetrated by Chinese agents aiming to steal secrets or plant bugs to infiltrate U.S. computer networks. Chinese government and industry use electronic espionage to "easily access official and personal computers," says one recent report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council, a federally chartered panel comprising security experts from corporations and the State, Commerce and Treasury departments.

Equipment left unsupervised for just minutes in a hotel or even during a security screening can be hacked, mined and bugged, adds Larry Wortzel, who chairs the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a federal panel that monitors China-related security issues for Congress. China's government also controls Internet service providers and wireless networks, he says, so computers and PDAs can be monitored and planted with bugs remotely, too.

"There is a high likelihood ? virtually 100% ? that if an individual is of security, political, or business interest to Chinese ? security services or high technology industries, their electronics can and will be tampered with or penetrated," Wortzel says.

If I were the government I'd load up some laptops with information guaranteed to harm the Chinese government and economy and send those along with some special agents to the games. Give the Chicoms plenty of opportunity to bug those machines and we could do a lot of damage.

The first thing I'd put on there is Barack Obama's energy plan. And then John McCain's energy plan. If the Chinese take those and implement them, they'll cease being a world power in 5 years.