Comment by dotancohen
2 days ago
Would it actually go so far?
Would the police actually try to investigate from where came the jammer? Might the competing firm possibly even finance an investigation themselves privately? And if so, would the police then accept the evidence?
People have done far more evil things for money.
The victim firm would definitely notice, they’d tell the FCC, and their investigators will show up with a device that literally points them to wherever the jammer is. If you do this for stupid, silly reasons you will get fined[1], if you do it in commission of another crime you will probably get made an example of. It doesn’t matter how evil you are, it’s hilariously easy to get caught doing this.
[1]: https://www.nj.com/news/2013/08/man_fined_32000_for_blocking...
> “Mr. Bojczak claimed that he installed and operated the jamming device in his company-supplied vehicle to block the GPS … system that his employer installed in the vehicle,” the FCC decision stated.
I'm not surprised that somebody would try and do this. However it is just so stupid at every level.
Next to Newark Airport too. He’s lucky they didn’t throw the book at him - they could’ve hit him for reckless endangerment.
We are talking about the UK, not the US. And the jammer will most likely be tucked away in some closet with no hint as to how it got there.
Where were we talking about the UK? All anyone said in this message chain was HFT (and NIST).
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