[HN Gopher] Woman tries to smuggle 202 Intel CPUs hidden inside ...
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       Woman tries to smuggle 202 Intel CPUs hidden inside a fake pregnant
       belly
        
       Author : alok-g
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-12-04 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.techspot.com)
        
       | ricardobeat wrote:
       | Hold on, so now the CPUs and iPhones are in possession of chinese
       | customs?
       | 
       | What was achieved here, and why should we believe it's not a
       | cover story for the government to obtain 202 intel CPUs? :D
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | Do they not have people walk through metal detectors at ports of
       | entry throughout China?
        
         | netsharc wrote:
         | Maybe just at airports, and this is a seaport/land crossing?
         | 
         | I remember entering China from Mongolia in 2019, I don't recall
         | any metal detectors (my memory could be fooling me), I do
         | remember needing to register my eyes and fingerprints on a
         | machine, so yeah, the regime has my biometric info.
         | 
         | One could take the train (the Trans-Mongolian that goes*
         | between Moscow and Beijing) to cross the border, I think the
         | passengers don't even have to deboard or go through any
         | detectors. I wanted to save money, so I ended up with hundreds
         | of Mongolian students who got off the train at the border, got
         | onto buses which took them to the border checkpoint, off the
         | buses and on foot along some dirt road to the big border
         | crossing building, queued to cross the border (thankfully it
         | was indoors), and then back onto the buses on the pristine
         | parking lot on the Chinese side. The buses would then go all
         | the way to the first big city where the train was going, but
         | for less price.
         | 
         | * At least before Covid and the "special military operation"
        
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