Invisible Fencing… For Teenagers
The Compound Security company from the UK has created the Mosquito sound box that emits a high pitch noise only audible to people under 25.
CBC radio’s The Current reported this morning that the box is in use in school districts like Maple Ridge BC. Apparently they also use video cameras and a water cannon that sprays trespassing kids with jets of water.
Nothing is wrong with that.
Right.
On Saturday I finished Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother. The high school in the story has a security system that keeps students in — not out — of the building. The teenagers in the story adopt the mantra “Don’t trust anyone over the age of…25.” People older than that don’t understand what it feels like to be under constant suspicion. No kidding.
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