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Visitors to Sochi Olympics Will Be Instantly Hacked

05
Feb
2014

Richard Engel watches as his phone gets totally owned. Proving yet again what a fabulous idea it was to stage the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, NBC has discovered that all the Games’ attendees can expect to immediately get hacked as soon as they get to Sochi. “The State Department warned that travelers should have no expectation of privacy, even in their hotel rooms,” NBC’s Richard Engel said in a report on Brian Williams’s show last night. To illustrate his point, Mr. Engel brought two new laptops to Sochi.

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