28.01.2012 - 17:48 [ The Register ]

Met lab claims ´biggest breakthrough since Watergate´: Power lines act as police informers

At the Metropolitan Police‘s digital forensics lab in Penge, south London, scientists have created a database that has recorded these deviations once every one and a half seconds for the last five years. Over a short period they form a unique signature of the electrical frequency at that time, which research has shown is the same in London as it is in Glasgow.