Jammers Vs Falsifications
Recently 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 illegal one. In addition to ”ordinary” methods of falsification that were used during previous elections, 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 technique has serious disadvantage, voter may take money and still vote for another candidate. It was absolutely impossible to spy out the voter’s choice until now. New technologies made possible for a person to get absolute control over the voting process of another person with the help of various secret tools. Thus several political parties decided to set small hidden wireless cams 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” choice. Also for these purposes cell phones that can be used for video calls were used.
Knowing all this, some parties equipped their representatives with special cell phone jammers 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 only one jammer was used. That universal jammer not only blocks all those bands but also is rather compact so it was not a problem to use it secretly.
As we see, jammers become more and more popular at the post-Soviet countries. The demand for cell phonejammers is growing not only among ordinary people but also among different government officials and organizations. In January 2010 blockers were used at the elections, in spring 2010 phoneblockers are supposed to be used during school exams. What’s next?
Source text can be read at that page.