Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a president who will lead them to prosperity and as usual some political parties tried to use any chance to gain more votes, even unlawful ones . In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used in 2004, 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. The thing is that this method has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. New equipment made possible for a person to gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy devices. Thus several political forces started to place 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” decision. Also for these purposes mobile phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammer to block 2.4 GHz frequency 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 a single jammer was used. That universal jammer not only disrupts all those bands but also is extremely compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for phonejammers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among different government officials and organizations. In winter 2010 blockers 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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