The Tacoronte City Hall It was proposed, after the suspension on April 26 of an opposition to the Local Police after detecting that someone received the answers from abroad, that the best solution to avoid these technological traps to copy in oppositions was to use frequency inhibitors in their facilities or for requesting that the exams be carried out in the future in classrooms supposedly equipped with this type of device in the University of La Laguna (ULL). Two possibilities that the current legislation does not allow and that complicate the control of those who they use mini-pinganillos, cameras and wireless technology to receive the answers of the exams that give access to public jobs.
own University of La Laguna explained yesterday to EL DÍA that «inhibitors are clearly illegal, so this university does not install this type of device in its classrooms. And in the case of detecting its existence in any, we would have the obligation to report it. An answer that leaves the repetition of the exam in the air again that had to be suspended after verifying that someone had an active call with the outside, through a mobile phone and a hidden earpiece.
The University of La Laguna denies that it uses frequency inhibitors
There is a report of the Central Unit of Private Security of the General Directorate of the Police and the Civil Guardof the Ministry of the Interior of the Government of Spain, which on February 16, 2010 already makes it clear that «frequency inhibitor devices can only be used by authorized Security Forces and Bodies and Public AdministrationsTherefore, at present, all those that are being used outside this exception, and without the express authorization of the Secretary of State for Telecommunications, are outside the current legislation, and can be applied, consequently and after complaint. , the corresponding sanctioning regime by the competent body». In addition, it adds that all the member states of the European Union “They agreed not to authorize this type of equipment, except for the exceptions provided for in the rule in the field of public safety.”
Nevertheless, the General Directorate of the Police and the Civil Guard already recognized the existence of this problem in oppositions and exams more than 12 years ago: «A particularly problematic case is that of students and opposition candidates, who have been using technological devices that are very difficult to locate in the different knowledge tests, and who have caused that many public and private centers are studying the advisability and legality of installing frequency inhibitors in their classrooms, with the sole objective of preventing or rendering useless devices used by students to fraudulently pass testsbut that would also disable other legal devices such as mobile phones, security equipment or remote controls of the different electronic devices of the center itself and of the premises or homes in the vicinity.
However, the only exceptions contemplated the european directive that regulates the use of jammers are limited to “those used exclusively for activities related to public security, national defense, state security and state activities in the field of criminal law.” In accordance with this legal framework, in the last decade the Ministry of the Interior has forced the removal of inhibitors from the universities of Asturias, Valencia, Aragon or Murcia, among other autonomous communities. Discarded inhibitors, administrations have other alternatives that could help detect these frauds, such as Software DefinedRadio (SDR) or the frequency detectorswhich can issue warnings when they are close to GSM, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connections, such as those used by copycat earpieces.
Software DefinedRadio
The hacker and cybersecurity expert Deepak Daswani explains to EL DÍA that “without analyzing its legal framework” there are other technologies that, apart from the usual frequency inhibitors, could prevent the use of technological tricks to cheat in oppositions and exams. This is the case of Software Defined Radio (SDR), which can be used to detect and complicate wireless communications in both reception and transmission modes. An SDR would serve, for example, to introduce music or noise in these communications.
signal detectors
Daswani adds that there is also technology to scan the radioelectric space and determine if there are active connections: “There are bluetooth scanners, Wi-Fi and frequency detectors.” A frequency detector that works with GSM, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth can help you discover the use of earpieces just by getting close to the cheaters.
