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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chief" data-source="post: 184732" data-attributes="member: 1662">Have heard of this battery scanner since the late 90's but no one has seen one. It is easier to follow someone from an office building during lunch time or right after work especially on fridays and hope they get lucky instead of walking around with a scanner in a parking lot. Its more of a social engineering thing where you predict the pattern of an individual. If you look at the most of the cases, most people who get their notebook stolen seem to have something in common - the area they work in. Any electrical engineer can tell you that the emmitance given out by a notebook battery while it is switched off is very faint and if its in your car trunk, it will be even harder because its shielded by the metal(body). If such a scanner exists (which is technically possible) we would have seen people walking suspiciously from car to car holding a device close to the trunk) CheersChief</blockquote>