Criminal Jusctice and Police bill

[Paul Leyland]

> From: Brewis, Mark [mailto:mark.brewis@edl.uk.eds.com]
> 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.

Even if it does boot to a hard drive it doesn't mean that there isn't room
for other stuff in there.  The standard laptop in use here at MSRC has two
bays, one of which usually needs to contain a battery and the other which
can contain pretty much anything you like --- floppy, anthrax, CD, semtex,
DVD, cocaine, another battery, ...


Paul