{"id":925,"date":"2004-05-15T23:58:14","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/05\/antiterrorism_cell_phone_jammi\/"},"modified":"2004-05-15T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2004-05-16T03:58:14","slug":"antiterrorism_cell_phone_jammi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/antiterrorism_cell_phone_jammi\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Terrorism Cell Phone Jamming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the Barcelona train bombings, which were detonated by cell phones, the L.A. County Sheriff floats the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandtribune.com\/Stories\/0,1413,82~1865~2137562,00.html\">jamming cell phone signals<\/a> at crowded facilities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cell-phone use could be blacked out at Los Angeles International Airport, the Rose Bowl and Universal Studios under an anti-terrorism plan being formulated by L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca and other law enforcement authorities.<br \/>\nBaca is exploring the use of jamming equipment &#8212; already used widely in foreign countries and to protect President Bush &#8212; to interrupt cell-phone signals if a terrorist attack was expected in Los Angeles.<br \/>\nThe issue gained urgency after terrorists used cell phones to detonate explosives March 11 in railway bombings in Spain. Baca, who recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Pakistan, said a cell-phone jamming device helped avert the attempted assassination of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Dec. 14.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting idea, but one not likely to go over well with the masses.  And resourceful terrorists can always rig up a device which operates outside the cell phone range on the wave frequency spectrum.  So there&#8217;s no guarantee this would thwart remote detonation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/antiterrorism_cell_phone_jammi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Anti-Terrorism Cell Phone Jamming\"><p>In the wake of the Barcelona train bombings, which were detonated by cell phones, the L.A. County Sheriff floats the idea of jamming cell phone signals at crowded facilities: Cell-phone use could be blacked out at Los Angeles International Airport, the Rose Bowl and Universal Studios under an anti-terrorism plan being formulated by L.A. County [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}