BEIJING — Kelly Curtis is a 32-year-old first-time Olympian who spent the week leading up to the Games training and doing Olympian things. She’s also a U.S. Air Force airman who at one point thought she’d specialize in cyber surety. So, as she prepared to race skeleton at the upcoming Beijing Games, she spoke with Air Force colleagues and Olympic officials about some concerns.
She, like other Team USA athletes, had been told by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to assume “that all data and communications in China can be monitored, compromised or blocked.”
The entire U.