Athletes were encouraged not to use their own cell phones for fear of being hacked by Beijing

Do not pick up your phone ... A few weeks before the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Western athletes were called upon to be vigilant in the face of the dangers of hacking on Chinese soil. Threatened by Govt-19 and diplomatically ignored by many countries, it is now suspected to be a playground for computer hackers: the Beijing Olympics, scheduled for February 4 to 20, are a chain of controversy. On Tuesday, the Canadian research laboratory Citizen Lab, an expert on cybersecurity issues, announced that it had identified several vulnerabilities in the application used by the tens of thousands of participants…