Cell Phone Jammin'

Not what you think...not jamming with your phone, it is jamming your cell phone...oeple fed up with this every connected universe are fighting back. They are fighting technology with technology, using detectors, jammers and other gizmos to defend privacy, security and sometimes sanity, according to this story.

Jamming cell phones is illegal in the United States, but with pocket-sized jammers sold online by foreign companies and even on eBay are an easy way: Jammers typically disrupt the communication between handsets and cellular towers by flooding an area with interference or selectively blocking signals by broadcasting on the same frequencies that phones use.

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