It's embarrassing, but it's not surprising. Clearly some of the participating countries were more focused on an economic discussion than a game of cloak and dagger.

But there's a lot more to this than countries not taking proper security measures. It's not easy if your "adversary" has a 0-day exploit for your Blackberry that came straight from the company that made it (which may be the case).

Seeing secure, totally open hardware come out of this would be great.