08-04-2023 21:34 via tech.slashdot.org

How Much Data Did the Chinese Spy Balloon Collect?

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from NBC News:The Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. was able to gather intelligence from several sensitive American military sites, despite the Biden administration's efforts to block it from doing so, according to two current senior U.S. officials and one former senior administration official. China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and
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