Jammer – Ideal Weapon Against Falsification
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person who will lead them to prosperity and as always some candidates tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even unauthorized one. In addition to “standard” ways of falsification that were used in 2004, improved methods of interfering into voting process took place.
Everyone knows that the most widely spread method of falsification at any elections is bribing of voters. The thing is that this technique has one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technique allowed a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret tools. So several political forces started to place small hidden wireless cameras on the bribed voters to receive real time video from voting cabin and so got the chance 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, other parties equipped their representatives with special phone jammer 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 cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only jams all these bands but also is extremely compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you see, blockers 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 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 cell phonejammers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
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