> Fuk and Tai were arrested at the Los Angeles airport after security agents searched their luggage and found an encrypted disk containing the files that Chi Mak had copied.

I would imagine someone working for Chinese intelligence would be using a robust encryption method. The article makes it seem like recovering the information from the disk was trivial.

It makes me wonder if the Chinese are just sloppy about secrecy, or if the US is just skilled at data recovery. I lean towards the latter.