Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:14:52 01/26/99
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On January 26, 1999 at 16:01:16, James Robertson wrote: >On January 26, 1999 at 09:11:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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. > >Do cameras and other things people legitimately bring cause similar RF's and EMI >'s and other stuff? > >James Not that I know of. But to generate an RF field to send a signal is quite 'noisy'... although it is possible if you have a _lot_ of money and time to build something fairly 'quiet'. But with a good spread spectrum scanner, you could definitely detect 'squirt' transmissions and blast that frequency if you want to jam, or track it with a DF unit... I think it would be expensive to cheat like this, expensive to counter the cheating approach, which means it will likely go undetected for the most part, except maybe at major tournaments. this _really_ seems sad... But it also seems inevitable...
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