Jamming a cell phone is illegal in the U.S. Very illegal. And not just by ordinary citizens. It’s illegal for theater and restaurant owners to jam calls, and even state and local police or prison ...

ATLANTA, GA — There is an ongoing standoff between Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr the Federal Communications Commission about the use of jammers inside local jails and state prisons. Carr is ...

Remember the scene in the fourth “Star Trek” movie in which Spock and Captain Kirk, time-traveling to 20th-century Earth, endure the raucous noise from a punk’s blasting boombox while riding on a ...

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