Conservative want higher sentences for failure to decrypt ch ild pornography

[David Howe]

at Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:08 AM, Roland Perry <roland@linx.net>
was seen to say:
> I'm not sure. Doesn't the current system just phone the police if the
> taggee is not within a hundred yards of home, during whatever their
> curfew hours are?
Yup. it takes advantage of the fact that the "cuff" mechanism is short
range - if the signal strength drops below a pre-determined level, it
phones the cops. It is also wired in *upstream* of your normal phone
box, so that it can cut off any calls / internet sessions in progress so
it can dial. It also dials twice a day *anyhow* - at the start and end
of the curfew - so that the cops know the box is still functional.