Great technological apparatus is used to prevent leaks and interference in the Conclave secret election responsible for defining the next Pope. The vote starts this Wednesday (7) at the Vatican. In all, they are 133 participating cardinals.
Clerics are in isolation and should not communicate with people from outside the Vatican. For this, measures such as cell phone blockers are taken.
Which technologies will be used to avoid leakage in the conclave
On Monday (5), the office of the Governor of the Vatican City sent a note addressed to the “Dear Customers” informing that the cell phone towers will be disabled at 15h, local time (10am BrasÃlia) on Wednesday (7) and will remain off until the name of the new Pope is announced.
Cellular signal blockers would have been installed under a high floor to provide a platform to the altar, which is several steps higher than the rest of the chapel. These artifacts may also be close to the upper windows of the chapel, which are at a height of about 20 meters.
“Great protection will be created around cardinals all the time,” said a source familiar with some of the safety procedures for Reuters. “If they decide to walk the gardens or smoke outside, no one can approach them,” he added.
The “assistants”, including priests, cooks, jars, drivers and other attendants, have already taken an oath to “observe absolute and perpetual confidentiality” about everything they see or hear.
In the last conclave, in 2013, it was widely publicized that a Faraday cage It had been installed and has been there since. Such a device can increase the safety of communications by protecting them against electromagnetic fields.
Other security measures to ensure that no one is spying or trying to get information include film in the window to block drone cameras.
Clerics do not have access to newspapers and magazines while being inmates in the conclave.
The penalty for not maintaining the secret will be the automatic excommunication of the church.
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*With information from Reuters.
This content was originally published in Conclave: which technologies will be used to avoid leakage on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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