Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to the bright future and as always some political forces tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even unlawful one. In addition to “standard” methods of falsification that were used in 2004, improved ways 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, there is a possibility that voter will take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to find out the voter’s choice until now. Today’s technologies allowed a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret devices. So some political parties started to set small secret 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 support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special cell 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 jam all mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. This universal jammer not only jams all these frequencies but also is very compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you can see, blockers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet territories. The demand for cell 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 phonejammers are supposed to be used during exams at schools. What’s next?
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