Chinese publication HKEPC reported that Chinese authorities caught a smuggler trying to sneak almost $32,000 worth of SSD through customs.

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    1 year ago

    “Officer, I am telling you those are my ABS! I’ve just been hitting the gym a lot. Hey, don’t lift up my shirt.”

    How the hell did this guy think he was gonna bypass the scanner?

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      Sometimes I wonder if these people are paid to do stupid shit like this knowing it’ll cause a distraction while the real smuggling operation is going through

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        It’s the cost of doing business. You know you will be caught and you know how much they love to make big deals out of it, so… Adapt and overcome

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        Sometimes I wonder if these people are paid to do stupid shit like this knowing it’ll cause a distraction while the real smuggling operation is going through

        This makes the most sense to me. I was having trouble understanding the motive / risk-assessment, but this seems plausible. Thanks.

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    1 year ago

    Nothing beats the bandwidth of a ~~VW bus full of mag tape~~ man with SSDs taped to his stomach.

    Edit: You guys don’t have strike through markdown yet?

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    It’s weird that he’s smuggling just the cards by themselves. That’s potentially up to an exabyte of data. Can be either filled with something, or at least have something hidden among all that storage space.

    Would it really be worth it smuggling the cards alone that way?