Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and as always some candidates did everything possible to win, even if it was against the law. In addition to “standard” ways of falsification that were used in 2004, improved methods of interfering into voting process took place.
Everyone knows that the most widely spread method of falsification at any elections is bribing of voters. The thing is that this method has one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was almost impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies allowed a person to get full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret devices. So several political forces decided to set small hidden wireless cams on the bribed voters to get real time video from voting cabin and so got the chance to check whether the voter made the “right” choice. Also for these purposes mobile phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special phone jammer to disrupt 2.4 GHz waves and thus to prevent competitors from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to disable all cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. This universal jammer not only disrupts all these frequencies but also is very compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As we see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for phonejammers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among various government officials and organizations. In January 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 cell phoneblockers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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