By Anders Sandberg
This is a small device, looking like a calculator (often camouflaged as such). It will send a signal to a certain RISP which responds with a signal. The scanner will use this information to track the distance to the RISP. Some scanners can send signals to every RISP in the vicinity, thus finding unexpected RISPS. Using these scanners, New World Order is tracking interesting computers to find their owners. Even if they only find an uninteresting RISP in a stereo, they will enter its position, use and identification number into their gigantic database over known RISPs. You can never tell what use it could have one day.