From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 23:04:27 -0800 (PST)
To: m5@vail.tivoli.com
Subject: Re: High-tech tracking by police raises legal outcry
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Mike McNally wrote:
> Secret Squirrel wrote:
> > The technology, marketed by a company called Teletrac, is simple:
> > A tramsmitter sends a radio signal to a computer ...

> Anybody know the frequencies used?
> (Anybody willing to guess whether the FCC might quietly introduce
> prohibitions against scanners that can receive those frequencies?)

The newer scanners are apparently moving more of their "intelligence"
to EEPROM (or Flash memory), which makes a permanent fix extremely
difficult for the feds.