Strange news item, this morning:
At the moment, Scientologists use the e-meter to audit their members. This seems liable to be an attempt to prevent the members from disassembling the devices.
Any thoughts on what might be inside that needs to not be found?
It’s well known that these are just galvanic response devices with some smoothing gizmos. The specs are in the wild, if you know where to look. You can also get used e-meters on ebay and such occasionally.
But the “Church” can currently object to teardown videos on YouTube etc under copyright and other laws, which means Joe Average Netizen can’t easily find a technical autopsy. Right to Repair will remove those grounds and allow people to publish “repair” guides which make it painfully obvious there’s nothing meaningfully functional in the housing.
The article suggests that the main objective here would be to prevent decompiling the software.
I did find one teardown video, from a German channel (and given Scientology’s very tenuous legal foothold in Germany, that makes me wonder if it helps insulate the guy from “Church” pressure).
There’s a lot of stuff in the box but most of it doesn’t seem to do anything. I suspect the “software” will be found to be similarly empty of function.
