Jammers Vs Falsifications
Once again Ukrainians had to choose a president to lead them to the bright future and as always some candidates tried to gain more votes in any possible way, even illegal one. In addition to “standard” methods 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. But this technique has one big 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 gain full control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret gadgets. Thus some political parties decided to set small hidden wireless cameras on the bribed voters to receive 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 can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties provided their representatives with special cell phone jammer to block 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to stop opponents from using wireless cameras. Also GSM and 3G blockers were used to disable all mobile phones at the voting cabins. In the vast majority of cases a single jammer was used. That universal jammer not only jams all those frequencies but also is very compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As you can see, jammers 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 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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