Mobile phone jamming technology is directed against journalists

Mobile phone disruption technologies developed during the Iraq war could be used against journalists reporting protests against the US political establishment. While policing and government monitoring of protests, including mobile phone monitoring, is well documented, efforts to block signals during protests remain an oft-repeated, but unproven rumor. It may not be possible to prove definitively […]

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GPS jammers could turn off signals in a medium-sized city

At the same time, the US still lacks the ability to quickly identify and geographically locate “interference or spoofing of GPS services,” said DHS Program Manager John Merrill at the Service Interface Committee’s Civil Global Positioning Systems annual meeting, which promotes a global forum Interaction between the US and worldwide GPS users. The US developed […]

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