Criminal Jusctice and Police bill

[Brewis, Mark]

Jonathan Care wrote
>There is an exciting new trend for laptops and mobile phones to be used as 
>containers/innocuous housings for weapons. Unfortunately, due to the 
>complexity of machinery inside, it is often not possible to tell whether
the 
>device is a real mobile phone, or a compressed-air flechette, for example.

I can appreciate the risk they pose - however, seeing the machine boot to
bios only does not necessarily mean there is a hard drive.  There is a
considerable amount of space for nefarious purposes inside if the machine
doesn't have a disk, or is designed to boot to a flash device.

>Since the instructions given to the officers do not include hubs and 
>switches, only laptops, PDA's and mobile phones, this is probably why you 
>were not asked to demonstrate their operation.

Or possibly the fact that I was waving a 240 V cable in the air asking for
power!

Mark Brewis 
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