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« Les dents, le brouilleur et au lit ! », c’est la nouvelle enquête de l'@anfr sur un brouillage qui affectait les services de téléphonie et d’internet dans toutes les bandes de fréquences mobiles, mais uniquement la nuit 🌙… https://t.co/Jqpg5YKjBp pic.twitter.com/RLmOV7iMG5
What do you do when your children stay on social media all night long? You could take their devices, but that's a fight, and there are always more devices. You could try parental controls, but they are often limited and/or confusing, and children find their way around them. And many places have multiple sources for internet- wifi, the neighbor's wifi, the phone company, etc. To boot his teenagers offline, one man went for the nuclear option.
A mobile phone company in Messanges, France, was getting daily complaints about an outage between midnight and 3 AM. They enlisted the National Frequency Agency to investigate, which sent out a mobile lab truck out to investigate and found the problem was coming from one house. A father was using a multi-band wave jammer to interrupt his children's internet use at midnight so they would go to sleep. He was unaware that he had disrupted all telecommunications in an area that covered two towns!
The use of wave jammers is illegal in France (and the US). The agency put a notice on their website that the range of such devices often far exceeds their claims. The man who used the jammer could get a fine of €30,000 and six months in jail. He will also have to pay the agency €450 for the investigation. Jail time is unlikely in this case, but be warned: trying this can come back to bite you. -via Gizmodo