Jammer – Ideal Weapon Against Falsification
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to the bright future and as usual some candidates did everything possible to win, even if it was against the law. In addition to “standard” methods of falsification that were used in 2004, improved ways of interfering into voting process took place.
It is well-known fact that the most widely spread method of falsification at any elections is bribing of voters. The thing is that this technique has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. New technologies made possible for a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy gizmos. So several political parties decided to place small secret wireless cams on the bribed voters to receive real time video from voting cabin and so got the opportunity to check whether the voter made the “right” choice. Also for these purposes cell phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz waves and thus to prevent competitors from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to jam all mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only jams all those frequencies but also is very compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As we see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for phoneblockers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among different government officials and organizations. In January 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phonejammers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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