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Jammers are not selective at all - they basically DoS a local area with a signal that makes it so a particular range of devices cannot receive any data due to t
by merlincorey 12y ago
Jammers are not selective at all - they basically DoS a local area with a signal that makes it so a particular range of devices cannot receive any data due to the jammer being closer/more powerful than whatever device they normally would be able to reach.
- quadrature 12y ago*On a particular frequency band. You can have guard radios talking on another band.
- Terr_ 12y agoSo then people just switch the settings/models of radios being smuggled.
- quadrature 12y agoPerhaps, I didn't know they were smuggling radios.
- pixl97 12y agoWhich is really important, because right outside of the prison/jail you really want your phone to work if you see some guy in an orange jumpsuit running at you.
- tsomctl 12y agoNot sure what you are saying. If you mean that a jammer isn't tunable, and blasts out energy at all frequencies, you are wrong. If you mean that a jammer doesn't discriminate between devices, I don't think it matters. Guards probably aren't allowed to have cellphones anyways, so it's ok to block all commercial cell phones (if they even exist still). Really, you could block everything except the guards' radios. The prison security system is probably all wired, as well as the computers. This way, the only way prisoners could use a radio would be to communicate with someone standing right outside the prison fence, or with someone in another cell, which is a lot less convenient than the situation right now. If the allowed band is small enough, you could probably just have someone monitor it to catch this.