Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person who will lead them to prosperity and as usual some political forces did everything possible to win, even if it was forbidden. In addition to “standard” 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. The thing is that this technique has one big disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was almost impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technique made possible for a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy devices. Thus several political forces decided to place small hidden 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 mobile phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties provided their representatives with special cell phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz waves and thus to prevent competitors from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to block all cell phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only disrupts all these frequencies but also is extremely compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As you see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phonejammers is growing not only among common people but also among various government officials and organizations. In January 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 cell phonejammers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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