TMZ is on it

Here's the lowdown from MTv  ~

The device is called a SCRAM bracelet, and it's hardly an unfamiliar fashion accessory for Lohan, who volunteered to wear the bracelet as part of an outpatient care program following her DUI arrest in 2007. The SCRAM bracelet, short for Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor, is a lightweight ankle bracelet designed to keep track of the wearer's alcohol consumption through measuring his or her perspiration. After data regarding the wearer's blood alcohol content is collected, the bracelet sends the information to the manufacturer, Alcohol Monitoring Systems.

But, I wanna know, how do you beat it?

... As a result, SCRAM wearers are cautioned not to submerge the device in water, as the bracelet would no longer be able to record perspiration, which would be flagged by remote monitors as "an attempt to defeat" the bracelet. Said Geragos: "You've got to take some precautions when you shower."

Additionally, SCRAM wearers are instructed against ingesting alcohol of any kind — that means not just beverages, but also mouthwash, colognes and perfumes, certain types of lotion and other similar products containing alcohol.
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There's gotta be some kind of hacker who can scramble the signal to make it look like it isn't.  Where there's a will there's a way, especially for addicts.  I found this from a forum...

 SCRAM bracelet - ranging from a bucket of ice water to a slice of baloney.


For The Other Foot


The SCRAM unit (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor) measures the alcohol content of the wearer's sweat and sends the result to a designated person - in Lohan's case, it was her lawyer.

But probation officers familiar with the clunky accessory say it's amazingly simple to fool the device.

One way is to stick your foot in a tub of ice water. "The ice bath prevents you from sweating, so there's nothing to record, and it doesn't activate a tamper alarm, either," an officer told the Daily News.

Another trick is to stick some baloney (or most other cold cuts) between the unit's sensor and the wearer, creating a skin-like barrier that doesn't sweat.

"This is much less effective. It more often than not interferes with the hourly readings the device takes, and we notice when we get the daily report and would definitely contact you," another officer said.



"And it must smell pretty bad when you cram baloney in there."

Another loophole is the device's memory capacity.

"It has a two- or three-day capacity to store data," said one official, meaning that if the wearer isn't near the SCRAM modem to collect and transmit the data to the proper authorities for a week, there would be a gap of four or five days.

Court-ordered offenders usually have to stay close to home because "we'll pick you up after the first day we don't get any readings from you," a probation officer said with a laugh.

But for lucky ladies like Lohan, who was wearing the ankle bracelet out of choice, a long, sober week away from the modem could use up the device's memory - just in time for a sauce-laden party weekend at the beach.

The allegedly teetotaling starlet could wear the bracelet in public but skip her check-ins with the modems at the designated upload time.

SCRAM requires its wearers to spend 10 minutes a day within 20 feet of the modem - and always at the same time of day. It is not known if Lohan kept to such a schedule-

I'm such an enabler, me.