Sometimes what you use against teenagers can come right back at you and bite you in the ass. A high-pitched tone, which can generally be heard only by youth, was used to keep teenagers away from stores where they were not welcome. The result of this was that now teenagers use this tone to send and receive SMS text messages without their teachers knowing about it. Here’s a New York Times article about it (free registration required).
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