Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person who will lead them to the bright future and yet again some political forces 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 ways 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 method has serious disadvantage, there is a possibility that voter will take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was almost impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. New technologies made possible for a person to get full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gizmos. Thus some political forces decided to place small secret wireless cameras 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” choice. Also for these purposes mobile phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to jam any mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases only one jammer was used. This universal jammer not only disrupts all these frequencies but also is highly 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 various government officials and organizations. In winter 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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