Wireless signals to be jammed in Canada for G8 summit

All they need...

...are a few hundred bloggers running MiFi and hosting ad hoc access points.

Send Money to Canada

No wireless in Canada's largest city and the country's financial centre, possibly for the duration of this elitist jerkfest- yah that's a great idea.

And hard on the heels of the $5.5 Million CND temporary fence too. No really, it's true, read the link. Total security costs alone for this event are estimated by the Gov to be over $1 billion CND!

http://tinyurl.com/38q9etb

These costs will come from general tax revenue paid by folks that have absolutely no interest or reason to care for this 'event'. Any non-Canuck readers care to send some cheques to me to cover my tax portion? Share the love!

I'd ask you all to share the hate but it would get me arrested, afterall this is 21st century Canada.

Not the only thing being jammed

Sorry Joe Public, YOU don't count.

Why oh why don't they hold these pointless (an expensive) summits somewhere remote, like a resort island in the Pacific Ocean?

- Control the whole islands, no make that countries, wireless network.

- Minimal (violent) protests

- Cheaper to run, all things considered

- No disruption to a major city.

- Cocktails...

Hint

Use Police Frequencies to detonate stuff. Here Police uses 87 MHz, which has much better propagation properties than mobile phones have.

So ....

Instead of bombs looking for a signal to detonate, they simply wait for loss of signal and, after a short time, >kaboom<, as usual.

Nagative

So, how hard is it to design some kind of device which explodes when it STOPS hearing signals from its owner? Thanks to a little script, my laptop locks its screen when it stops being able to talk to my phone, so I'm guessing not very hard. I suppose the assumption is that terrorists are just very stupid.

popularity vs elected

if instead of spending so much time and effort in trying to be re-elected (or simply elected) with false promises, these politicians would actually do some sensible and start keeping their campaign promises and taking popular decisions (as in appreciated by the majority of the people), then maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't have to worry about being so unpopular for these meetings and the population could enjoy their life better, without worrying from themselves too, because bombs and the likes (if any should be present) rarely only kill the intended target but cause many "innocent" casualties

why

Why are they doing this we never did any of that when the G20 was in the UK last year. I only know that as I worked at it and could still make calls no bother during it, and in the venue.

Noooooo

Noooooo Max, not the cone of silence!

The theatrical peacocks grand entrance...

If they were really worried about money, they would just use video conferencing instead of wasting time and money with this big show. After all, they must have the best video conferencing technology, so there is no practical reason why they can't use secure HD video streams, to do very good video conferencing. So they show through their actions, they want to bring a city to a halt with their grand entrance, just so they can play at being seen as important and then they can go on to have their decadent meetings with their minions all around them, all falling over each other desperate to keep their masters happy. Its a pattern of peacock grand entrance behaviour that has been repeated throughout history.

Its a pattern of behaviour that combines a need to feel in power with a need for attention. The power seekers are the Narcissists and the attention seekers are Histrionic people, so what we have at the top is people who show they combine a need for power with a need for attention. So its no wonder they fight to the top in power, to then be seen as the all important person at the top. A Narcissistic Histrionic is a particularly nasty combination, because they will bring others down so they can maintain their need to be seen as important. Exactly the pattern of behaviour we see in politics and throughout history. Its why this pattern of peacock grand entrance behaviour has been repeated throughout recorded human history, because the same patterns of human behaviour have existed throughout history.

Its also why I couldn't care less about their grand entrance, (I have little interest in these false two faced peacocks) as long as they don't cut off services I need to use, whilst they play at being important in front of their sheeple. After all, like others have pointed out, there is no logical reason why if attackers wanted to attack they would simply use unblocked radio frequencies, so all this blocking of some frequencies is meaningless, other than all being part of the theatrical peacocks grand entrance.

Propaganda!!!!

More like they want to block the communications of potential protesters. Sounds like the proles can only have freedom of speech and democracy if you agree with the ruling classes.

Seig!

Hah...

... but I have a force of elite and highly trained carrier pigeons who will be released as the motorcade approachers and as the vehicles pass, will peck on the detonator switch. KABOOM!!!

Let's see them jam that...

non state sponsored High Tech terrorism targeting the Elite

when did one of those happen since the German Red Army (70's)?

Terrorist or Martyr?

A terrorist who wants to live to see the carnage will be inconvenienced by this, they will need an alternate method to trigger their device.

A Martyr will just flip the switch as the target enters optimal range.

They should just hold these conferences on Midway Island, it is secure, isolated, and a great place to get a tan. Of course Hookers and drugs would have to be brought in for the delegates, just in case they didn't bring their own.

I know - I know

Just do what they did in transformers.... instead of using mobile phones to communicate... use an old morse code transmitter and a spark gap generator.

If it was good enough for Marconi and the Titanic - it's good enough for me.

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Just a thought.