Did the DNC Keep Press Silent With Cell Jamming Signal? “Officials Barely Acknowledge They Use It”

Yet another report has emerged in the aftermath of the DNC convention alleging that staffers used sophisticated technologies to blackout negative coverage and literally drown out dissident voices.

Hillary’s 2016 coronation just wouldn’t be the same without the Orwellian overtones.

First there were reports that the convention had installed white noise generators over the sections that were pro-Bernie states. The white noise significantly drowns out the voices of anyone shouting in the radius.

Plenty of people find it hard to believe that such a device would be used against protesters in order to carefully control the DNC convention and make sure that it friendly for Hillary. However, a reporter on the campaign trail pointed out the use of these machines months before convention ever began.

Listen to the difference of before and after (around 9:20) the Clinton event when the white noise generator was switched on to cover-up the speech and make it incoherent.

Now reporters are coming forward to explain how their cellular and wifi devices were blacked out from transmitting images, posts, texts and communications when they encountered the perimeter of the convention at the Wells Fargo Center.

After several journalists, protesters and activists talked to each other about the signal jamming, the problem became apparent, as Mint Press reports:

Technology developed to jam cellphones during the Iraq War may be getting deployed against journalists reporting on protests against the political establishment in the United States.

While police and government surveillance of protests, including monitoring of cellphone use, is well-documented, efforts to block signals at protests remains an oft-repeated, but never proven, rumor.

We remind and warn consumers that it is a violation of federal law to use a cell jammer or similar devices that intentionally block, jam, or interfere with authorized radio communications such as cell phones, police radar, GPS, and Wi-Fi.

Key word: AUTHORIZED. They just decided not to authorize communication to and from specific locations at specific times. Nothing to see here, move on.

More lawyerspeak weasel words.

I thought landlines and cell phones were separate systems?

They go to separate switches. But for calls coming into a switch, land lines rank higher.

They are separate until they reach the Exchange. Given a phone number (aaa) xxx-yyyy. 'a' is the area code, a collection of Exchanges, 'xxx' designates a specific the Exchange (referred to as 'switch' above) and 'yyyy' are the 10K individual telephone numbers associated with that Exchange. There may be multiple Exchanges physically located within a single Central Office building.

At the Exchange switch any call not already in digital form (analog) is converted to digital format. All calls are inserted into gaps in the IP data traffic as so much 'filler'. Voice phone calls have a relatively low data rate compared to say, full motion video conferencing, and can tolerate a very high rate of packet loss. The human ear is very good at audio error correction.

Land lines do NOT rank higher than cell phones. A call is a call. A given cell phone tower can only process so many calls at one time. This is primarily a economic consideration. Cell providers don't provide excess capacity unless they absolutely have to.

I have a patent in Electronic Warfare (owned by the Government but my name is on it) which is relevant to the 'jamming' issue in the main body of the thread. Jamming in the civilian world is merely a point source of interference.

If anyone has a question I will try to answer it.

"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."

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But jamming remains strictly illegal for state and local agencies. Federal officials barely acknowledge that they use it inside the United States, and the few federal agencies that can jam signals usually must seek a legal waiver first.

Well, naturally. I believe running your own email server to process classified information is illegal, too. Anyone caught doing that would be severely punished.

Or not.

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