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Subject: Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:11:49 01/26/99

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On January 25, 1999 at 21:57:39, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Imagine Tom K's CE program on a 450Mhz palmtop in a pocket.  A shielded wire
>lead goes to the endpoint transducer.
>
>However, since these tournaments are for *grand larceny sized prize money*
>typically, I think that when someone is caught, they should be charged with
>felony fraud.
>
>I don't think that a strip search before the tournament begins will be very
>popular.

No, but a simple electronic field check would siffice..it would pick up
_any_ RF, and no shielding is perfect, because of the connectors at least.
not to mention the EMI produced by the electronics themselves.

• Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work James Robertson 13:01:16 01/26/99
  • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work Robert Hyatt 19:14:52 01/26/99
• Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work Michael Ginat 08:27:48 01/26/99
  • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work Mark Ryan 12:20:41 01/26/99
    • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work Michael Ginat 13:41:37 01/26/99
      • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work KarinsDad 14:31:30 01/26/99
        • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't Dann Corbit 17:12:26 01/26/99
          • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't KarinsDad 22:03:17 01/26/99
        • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work Michael Ginat 17:07:44 01/26/99
          • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work Robert Hyatt 19:20:33 01/26/99
            • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work KarinsDad 22:01:20 01/26/99
              • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work Oliver Y. 00:39:12 01/27/99
                • Re: You'll never catch all the cheaters - electronic evesdropping won't work KarinsDad 07:00:38 01/27/99

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