Jammers Vs Falsifications
Lately Ukrainians had to choose a president 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 “standard” ways 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. The thing is that this method has one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was almost impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. New technologies allowed a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy gizmos. Thus some political forces started to place small secret wireless cameras on the bribed voters to get 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 can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammers to jam 2.4 GHz waves and thus to prevent competitors from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G jammers 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 jams all these bands but also is extremely compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As we can see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for phoneblockers is growing not only among common people but also among different government officials and organizations. In January 2010 jammers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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