Jammers Vs Falsifications
Not long ago Ukrainians had to choose a person to lead them to the bright future and as always some political parties tried to use any possibility to gain more votes, even forbidden ones . In addition to ”ordinary” 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 method has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still give his vote to another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. New technologies made possible for a person to gain absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various spy gizmos. So some political forces decided to place 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 mobile phones that support video calls were used.
Knowing all this, other parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammers to disrupt 2.4 GHz frequency and thus to prevent opponents from using wireless cams. Also GSM and 3G jammers were used to jam any 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 bands but also is very compact so there were no problems with discreet usage of it.
As we 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 jammers 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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