Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a president who will 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 ”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. But this method has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies allowed a person to get absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret tools. Thus several political forces decided to set small secret wireless cams 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” decision. Also for these purposes cell phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties provided their representatives with special phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to prevent competitors from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to block any mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. That universal jammer not only disrupts all these frequencies but also is highly compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we can see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for cell 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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