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Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned (www.bbc.co.uk)
submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dang, there went all my legitimate plans for signal jamming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A microwave can be classified as a signal jammer. Yes, there are microwaves for cars and camping.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

And jamming signals can be useful in general for testing stuff, like mitigations for jamming. I did this at a physical security company I worked for where we needed to alert guards to jamming attempts.