I bet a ton of highschool professors wish they had one of these.
Personal Cell Phone Jammer, $27.41
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#12I have this sitting on my desk right now. I got it a year ago. Unfortunately it doesn't work, or I'm too dumb to get it to work, but other people on the DX forum mention that you have to tweak it. Anyone want to buy mine and give it a shot? $20 shipped in the US. I'm serious.
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#13Does selling products on HN conform with the TOS?
It seems unlikely that the poster is the one selling this item. It seems more likely that the reason for posting this was to show that you can in fact now buy cell phone jammers for only a few dollars. This is quite interesting whether or not you actually want to buy one :)
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#14Instead of jamming the signal, how about spoofing the various protocols (i.e. make a micro-cell), but one that will connect all calls with silence.
Would take much less energy, since all you need is to be slightly stronger than the cell tower, plus you don't need to transmit all the time, just when there is a call.
For extra points, detect and forward calls to 911.
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#15These are apparently illegal to use in the U.S.
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#16Coincidentally, I received two envelopes from DX today! I love that site and would like to vouch for their legitimacy. However, do be careful - if it seems too cheap to be possible, it's probably fake, just like my "Sandisk" Micromates microSD USB adaptor which is rather different from the Australian-bought genuine article sitting next to it.
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#17These are apparently illegal to use in the U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html
And for good reason. Who wants to have their cell phone rendered useless just because they happen to be standing too close to someone who decided they're more important than everyone else around them.
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#18These are apparently illegal to use in the U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/technology/04jammer.html
And for good reason. Who wants to have their cell phone rendered useless just because they happen to be standing too close to someone who decided they're more important than everyone else around them.
Similarly, it's a good thing dangerous chemical kits are outlawed in the US. Who wants to have their house burned down just because they happen to be living too close to someone who decided they're more important than everyone else around them?
update: Hey, why am I being voted down? Not trying to be a douchebag here. I really do view EM freedom as strongly correlated with normal-speech freedom. "Pirate" radio stations anyone?
Clamping down on "rogue" EM radiators is like clamping down on "rogue" anything else. We need a broader definition for "freedom of speech". EM is speech, too.
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#19Wait until you own up to having this thing and using it, you'll find yourself waking up in hospital wondering why.
What do you mean? That the device will make you sick or somebody else will beat you up?
You are interfering with the ability of others to communicate, it is the same as gagging everybody around you, which is about as rude as you could possibly get.
When somebody wonders out loud why their cell doesn't work, especially if the call they need to make is an urgent one and you whip out your 'gadget' be prepared for nasty stuff to happen to you.
Interfering with any kind of communication is about as low as you can go in my book (other than doing violence to other people), doing it on the sly makes it one step worse.
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#20Does selling products on HN conform with the TOS?
It seems unlikely that the poster is the one selling this item. It seems more likely that the reason for posting this was to show that you can in fact now buy cell phone jammers for only a few dollars. This is quite interesting whether or not you actually want to buy one :)
While I'm not begrudging, it should be noted that DX links ending with ~r. and a number are affiliated to a particular user's account.