Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and as usual some political parties did everything possible to win, even if it was against the law. In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used during previous elections, improved methods 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. But this method has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was almost impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies allowed a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gizmos. Thus some political forces decided to place small hidden 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” decision. Also for these purposes cell phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammer to jam 2.4 GHz waves and thus to stop opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to disable any cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. That universal jammer not only blocks all those bands but also is rather compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you can see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phoneblockers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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