• JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
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    7 months ago

    It makes sense - a self-contained device can be circumvented. A connected solution is much, much harder to fool

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        Someone knowledgeable enough could tamper with the local equipment to get it to give false negatives, or always pass regardless of blood alcohol content. If it doesn’t phone home, the company (or the court) doesn’t know it’s been tampered with.

        This is all theoretical, I know nothing about this tech.

        • teft@piefed.social
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          7 months ago

          I agree with you in principle but you could just have the person show up once a week for tamper checking. Those interlock devices are punishment for DUI/DWI so making the user show up once a week wouldn’t be too harsh, imo.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.it
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      7 months ago

      It make sense only if there you keep in mind that there is no way to be sure that it will be always connected, which does not seems to be the case…