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Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif... by lbotos on Sunday August 29, 2021 @12:42AM (#28344221)
You do realize that you can order all kinds of things on Alibaba? Or even, just from the internet?

I was importing small PCBs and components from china when I was 15. Most of the time the seller would write "gift" on the package.

If the seller writes "wifi router" on the box, is customs gonna doubt it? Sure, one in every X should be getting checked by whatever department looks out for "dangerous electronics" but it's easier than you think.

If no american is shipping boats of these into ports to sell, I doubt customs even looked at this person's small box with one device in it.

Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif... by sidewndr46 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:39AM (#28345677)
The other common thing is to label it "test equipment".
Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif... by baybal2 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @12:51AM (#28344276)
Well, there were literally the uranium enrichment centrifuges there one day 10 years ago, the page for which I seen myself.

Though they since cracked down on many things

Re:Police find electronic signal-jamming device inside Calif... by swader999 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @05:36AM (#28345424)
Yeah but they were only three stars.