Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with China in 2016

Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by int_19h on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:36PM (#29492035)

USSR/Russia also had a very long history of restrictions on accurate maps (of just about anything!), on the basis that it is a national security threat if the country ever gets invaded. Street-level maps were broadly available but deliberately falsified:

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/03/world/soviet-aide-admits-...

Detailed (<1:2500000) topographic maps were automatically classified as a state secret, and restricted on a "need to know" basis outside of the military until 1989.

A detailed article on this explaining how and why they went about it: http://www.hundzor.org/lj/10postnikov.pdf

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by seniorivn on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:57PM (#29492212)

funnily enough correct and detailed maps of ussr were available in nato countries

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Re:Apple CEO Tim Cook 'secretly' signed $275B deal with Chin... by aivisol on Thursday December 09, 2021 @06:12AM (#29496130)

True, and people knew it. I used to travel on the bicycle with the help of USSR maps made in early eighties (due to unavailability of other options), and yes, what you saw on the map was sometimes very different from what was in the real life, especially if you were close to the external border.

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