According to the story it's locked to a designated "cell" with a diameter of something less than 60 miles, so it would be just a nice modern end-table in China.

According to the story it's locked to a designated "cell" with a diameter of something less than 60 miles, so it would be just a nice modern end-table in China. The fact that it depends on accurate GPS and phones home continuously makes the geofence hard to hack.