Harassment Via WLAN/Wi-Fi

tHE FOLLOWING PIECE WAS RECENTLY POSTED BY MY FRIEND MEDAWAR ON HIS BLOG. I AM SHARING IT HERE IN ITS ENTIRETY BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT WHAT IS BEING DONE TO MY DAUGHTER AND ME.

ML

MONDAY, 24 JULY 2017

Harassment Via WLAN/Wi-Fi

Who does it?

Nutters, extremists who disagree with your right to have opinions that differ from theirs, property developers who want to force you to sell your house at below the market price, nerds who just think doing this sort of thing is "cool."

What Happens?

Especially when you are trying to work on the computer rather than just use it recreationally, the internet connection becomes slow or even stops altogether. This always happens at the most frustrating times possible, and calls to the ISP, helplines etc. never resolve the problem. (Although this is achieved using the WLAN, it still slows the router itself down to a crawl, so will affect you even if using an ethernet cable connection to the router.)

How is it done?

Somebody has studied your habits at length and by various means, including monitoring activity on your WLAN, so they know when you are likely to be doing something vital to your work or living your life. This is the basic method behind all forms of stalking, and it is generally something which the stalker greatly enjoys doing. Sometimes there is no other motive than the fact that the stalker gets off on doing this sort of thing.

They fit a surplus desktop computer that has a WLAN card, with a "directional aerial" aka "high-gain antennae" (often looks like a black Pringles tube) and they position this somewhere with a line of sight to your house, and preferably to wherever your router is, within your house. Using "net-stumbler" and the high gain antennae can help them to establish exactly where all your wireless devices are, so aiming the thing directly at your router is no real problem.

They use a progamme (which they can write themselves or buy online and download for a few pounds, dollars or small fragments of a bitcoin) to repeatedly poll your router, through the WLAN network(s) (you may have more than one from the same router, they will poll them all) for access. They don't need to have the password: the router's MPU still has to pay the attempted poll attention to determine that the supplied password or key is bogus. That's the point: the MPU works in "timeslices", and every timeslice it devotes to an attempt to handshake with it over the WLAN, is a timeslice that it cannot use for communicating with your device over the same WLAN, or via the Ethernet. It can't use that stolen timeslice for transmitting and receiving data over the actual internet connection, either.

Since the stalker's computer does nothing else exceptrepeatedly make failed handshakes with your router, the router's MPU ends up with few, if any, timeslices with which to process your legitimate activity and your connection stops working. 

Remember: a violent or hysterical reaction to this is one of the payoffs for the stalker, and he will have taken steps to mislead you, so that any violence by you is directed against an innocent party, and the stalker will be quick to call the police and spin them a tale, designed to get you arrested or shot. This leads into another form of stalking: "SWAT stalking" whereby repeated false emergency calls are made to get the victim arrested by armed police.

The stalker is probably breaking several laws: fitting a high-gain antennae to a source of radio interference is illegal in most jurisdictions, as is creating a public nuisance, and it is misuse of a computer and harassment.

Sabotage

A common ploy of organized stalkers and their stalking groups is the deliberate and systematic sabotage of victims’ homes, businesses, appliances, and vehicles. There are several different reasons for these acts of sabotage: to annoy, anger and upset victims; to drain victims’ financial reserves; and sometimes to cause victims serious bodily harm. Most people can relate one or two such (probably coincidental) incidents during their lifetime. The difference here is that victims of organized stalking, called “Targeted Individuals” (TIs), can usually report dozens of such incidents over the space of just a few years.

In our case, my children and I have been the victims of well over a hundred incidents of sabotage during the last thirteen years. These cover the entire spectrum from minor annoyances to expensive ruining of necessary equipment to acts clearly intended to attempt to injure or kill us. Routinely, a particular item or appliance is tampered with over and over again in the same way, often at periodic intervals.

The first act of sabotage committed against my children and me actually took place much longer ago. I have mentioned this incident in previous posts but will repeat the basics here. A few months after my husband and I and our oldest child moved to my husband’s hometown in the Texas Hill Country in 1986, my firstborn, I, and the second child I was pregnant with narrowly escaped death by carbon monoxide poisoning in the house we were renting at the time. My husband, who had been away working the night we were taken ill, was not affected, but I was put on oxygen and hospitalized for 24 hours after a blood test in the ER confirmed I’d been poisoned. While I was recovering, a gas company technician discovered that someone had nailed a board over the vent for the gas heater in the attic of the house and that the door at the base of the heater was hanging open. I was later told that a previous tenant had mistakenly covered the vent opening because he thought it was a leak and that the heater door had not been closed properly by another technician who’d come out to ignite the pilot light. [Interestingly, the doctor who treated me at the hospital questioned me extensively about my experience shortly before discharging me. Also, although the local newspaper printed lists of who was in the hospital at the time, they never published my name for this stay.]

Now fast-forward to thirteen years ago this month, when my husband suddenly left to marry a co-worker he’d been having an affair with behind my back. A few months after he left, the power brakes on my minivan suddenly failed completely, and I was able to stop the vehicle only by standing with both feet on the brake pedal with all my weight. I took the van in and supposedly had the brakes repaired, but on the way home, they failed again. This time, the dealership said they needed to order a part that took several weeks to arrive, so I was without my vehicle for quite a while—a great hardship for a newly single mother! And when I finally got my van back, the brakes immediately failed again. This went on for some time, with the van remaining at the dealers’, since it wasn’t safe to drive. Eventually, the divorce lawyer I’d retained had me send a letter to the dealership (which happened to be owned by the town’s mayor at the time and his family). About a week after I sent this, the dealer called and said my husband had purchased a new van for the kids and me (that I’ve been driving ever since).

After my divorce was finalized, I began having constant problems with leaking coils on the heat pump that was installed in the house my husband and I had built (where the kids and I now lived). I eventually had to replace the unit, which was very expensive, but the new unit soon began to leak as well. Not being very mechanically inclined, I kept patiently having the company that had installed the unit out to repair it, but eventually I decided to have a different company take a look. They showed me how the unit had been installed incorrectly so that the coils and electrical connections were located down inside the drip pan. I have previously posted photographs of this at

http://vocct.blogspot.com/2009/06/heating-up-in-texas.html.

Over the years, the kids and I have had numerous other heating and air conditioning problems. Many times, our heat pump would simply stop working for various periods of time, only to magically restart itself just as a repairman arrived. I later discovered what I’ve been told is a relay switch for turning the unit off and on remotely, laying on top of the unit.

Recently, our air conditioning stopped working suddenly again. The repairman who came out somehow knew exactly where to go to fix the problem. In fact, he could barely contain his laughter as he showed me how the clip that held the emergency cut-off switch under the unit had somehow managed to get knocked off and trip the switch—even though none of us had been anywhere near the unit. He charged me $90 to clip the switch back on, as shown on the receipt below.

Then there are the problems with our standing seam tin roof. I have records of countless supposed repairs of various leaks that I paid for over the years, few of which actually got fixed, and many of which ended up doing substantial damage to our house before they finally were taken care of properly. Once, a roofer charged me $500 to go up on our roof and apply a small amount of caulking around a vent fan over the children’s bathroom that was leaking. He knew I’d be forced to go along with this because: a) no one else would come out here to make the repair, since I’d already had all the other companies in town out to try, and b) the roof is too high for my ladder to reach and too steeply sloping for me to go up there and make the repair safely by myself.

However, all of our other sabotage problems pale in comparison to those relating to our water heater. After one was installed incorrectly, workmen managed to flood parts of our house while fixing it (again, amid much laughter and a general “party atmosphere” on the part of the plumbers involved, whom I also caught attempting to steal some of my children’s toys on their way out!). Next, unknown persons began breaking into our house repeatedly and changing the temperature setting on our water heater, resulting in some near scaldings and numerous cold showers for my kids and me and more expensive visits by various plumbers, until we figured out what was going on. Lately, someone has been tripping the reset button on our tank, which Dr. John Hall of San Antonio told me the Hays organized stalking ring we know is being paid to target us apparently can do remotely from a vehicle parked in front of our house. (They can also park by our transformer, push a button on some gadget they have, and shut off all of our electricity for a few minutes, which they do quite often as well. When this happens and we look outside, the stalkers wave at us or dance around briefly in the street in front of us and then speed off.)

Then there are the problems with our cable television. Besides our service failing completely quite often, someone is able to selectively take out particular channels, usually because there’s something we really want to watch. Of course, only that channel (and sometimes a few random others) go out right as the show is is coming on, and of course they usually come right back on when the show is over. However, certain channels are taken down quite a lot of the time on our set, most notably Investigation Discovery and CNN.

The sabotage and hacking of our computers, computer connections, and related equipment are so common and so severe as to be worthy of their own separate post or posts. (For a start, please see "Man In The Middle".) Suffice it to say that our printer magically turns off and on all by itself at odd moments, our fax machine sometimes broadcasts voices or strange sounds of various sorts, and whichever port our mouse is plugged into fails often and repeatedly, forcing us to have to constantly switch it to a different port as we work. [It’s doing this now as I’m typing this!] It took us months to get the video shown in "Proof Of Organized Stalking" uploaded, because the connection would mysteriously fail every time we tried.

Some of the sabotage directed at my children and me continues to be life-threatening. A little over a year ago, I noticed a loud hissing noise coming from under the heavy cement cover on top of our water well outside. I briefly considered having my kids help me lift the cover and take a look, but the water heater happened to go out that same day (one of the times the reset button was tripped, as it turned out), so I had the plumber check the well when he came. This turned out to be a very good thing, because when he got the cover off the well, we discovered a suspicious-looking hole in the PVC pipe that was causing water to spray into the top of the well where the pump was; the water had filled the hole to the point where all the electrical connections on the pump were submerged. As soon as he saw this, the plumber’s face turned visibly white, and he began shaking noticeably. He immediately had me go to the breaker box and turn off power to the pump. He then asked if we had metal doorknobs in the house and whether anyone had ever been shocked by them. I told him we did but hadn’t had any problems with them, and he said this was a miracle. Later, he said our well pump was rigged slightly differently than most, which had prevented anyone from being shocked in the house, but that if any of us had put our hands down in the water to try and repair the leak, we might well have been electrocuted.

Recently, one of my (now adult) children was out running errands when the throttle on their car suddenly became stuck in the open position, and the engine began racing. [Note: This vehicle is not one of the well-publicized ones known to have this problem.] Thankfully, my offspring was able to make it home safely, but when I went out to take a look, the vehicle was stuck in “Park” with the wheels and ignition switch locked as well. Eventually, by jiggling the key around, I was able to restart the still-racing engine. I then unstuck the open throttle by stomping on the accelerator twice, after which the wheels and gear shift lever unlocked, and I could drive the vehicle into the garage. Early the next morning, when I went out to leave for work in my van, I found a small bolt laying on the floor of our garage, directly behind my child’s vehicle, which was parked next to mine. I don’t recall ever having seen this item before, and I’m positive it hadn’t been there the day before.

These are just a small sampling of the many, many constant acts of sabotage we have been forced to deal with time and time again. I’m posting this now because I’m currently in the middle of having to deal with two different items of sabotaged equipment, one a continuation of something discussed above, and the other a separate repeated problem I haven’t even gone into here. At the moment, I’m unable to get either of these problems corrected because of repair persons refusing to return my phone calls or putting me off in various other ways (potentially forcing me to pay huge long-distance service charges to bring someone else in, since we live in a small town). There is simply no reasonable excuse for business owners to treat a customer in the ways I’m being treated.

In closing this discussion, I feel a need to sternly remind some of my readers that organized stalking, harassment, and deliberate sabotage are serious criminal acts; see "U.S. Anti-Stalking Laws". These offenses are potentially punishable by strict federal sentencing guidelines that don’t include parole. Furthermore, in our case, the persons behind our stalking and many of their connections are known to both us and to high-level law enforcement.

If you participate in organized stalking and harassment in any way, even if ordered to participate by someone else, OR if it can be shown that you had knowledge of acts of organized stalking but did nothing to report or prevent them, you can be charged and convicted of these crimes just like the persons behind them. You should also be aware that although the persons persuading you to commit these crimes in various ways (such as through lies, threats, or whatever else works) may pretend to be your friends, they actually consider you completely expendable.

Take A Number, Please!

[This post is a continuation of the previous post.]

In January of 2004, a private investigator I'd hired named Ed Hodges forged my name on a fraudulent trust document that gave him and a lawyer-friend of his complete control of my house and land. (This document was filed by the county clerk's office despite the fact that it was not even properly notarized.) At some time between then and June of that year, the county tax office changed the owner's address on my house and property to that of my ex-husband's business office, as documented in the earlier post here titled "Address Changes".

In February of 2004, as shown here, a woman named Sandy, whom I'd been told was an employee of Ed Hodges, sent me the two completely unsolicited emails shown here. She told me I should consider changing my Internet service to one of the two companies she mentioned if any of their access numbers were not long distance for me because their fees were cheaper than the provider I'd been using.

At the time, I was satisfied with our service, so I ignored these. Later, however, our provider raised our rates considerably, so I went back to these emails to take a closer look. Each of the two servers had only one number that was a local call for us: the same number in nearby Willow City. I chose the cheaper of these options and switched our service over.

The provider I switched to as a result uses the server involved in the Man In The Middle attack on my computer in the previous post. In retrospect, I believe Sandy knew there was only one number in each list that I could use. I feel certain she deliberately sent me to it knowing it would enable the attack on my computer.

These emails provide documentation of serious federal offenses that can and should be added to those documented in the previous post.

Man In The Middle

Over the last twelve years, my children and I have been the victims of constant and unrelenting attacks on our home computers: severe hacking; poor to non-existent connections; constant sudden disconnects; disappearing or altered files, icons, programs, and more; human voices and bizarre sounds of various types emanating from our fax machine; strange emails such as the one posted earlier on this blog and titled "A Reporter Said"; and much more. I've taken our home computer and my children's student laptops to many different computer repair shops and professionals in several different cities over the years and paid them a great deal of money to receive their assurances that our problems were fixed, only to discover that our computer troubles were actually worse, not better.

Recently, I've finally been able to find a few computer and security experts with honesty and integrity who were kind enough to look into some of our computer woes. Among many other things, I've learned that I am the victim of what's known as a "Man In The Middle" (MITM) attack. As it was explained to me, every time I sent anything from my email account, a mirror copy was also being sent to someone else through a hack on the server. The "someone else" would remove any legitimate replies I might receive and substitute their own bogus replies instead.

Let's look at some different examples of this. I'll start with the headers from an email I received in 2004 from a group of San Antonio lawyers (Ex. 1). An examination of the path this email took shows it came directly to me rather than being routed through the loopback. (This legal group sent me to an attorney with ties to my ex-husband who tried to con me.)

Now let's move on to a different kind of example. The second email posted here (Ex. 2) is one of a great many harassing ones I've received over the years. This email came through the loopback and has ridiculous addresses that were clearly fabricated, even though they look superficially real.

The third example posted here (Ex. 3) is of what appears to be a death threat sent to me by a friend of my father's. This email is odd because it seems to have come from the Earthlink server instead of the Yahoo one, although it came from Yahoo originally.

My final MITM example is actually a double one (Exs. 4 and 5). In March of 2006, I attempted to file a formal written complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) by email as well as by regular mail, since so much of our regular mail was being tampered with or stolen. (I have a stack of tracking receipts for mail that comes up as "No Record" over an inch thick!)

Immediately after I emailed my complaint, I received the two emailed responses shown here as Exs. 4 and 5. The one titled "Re: Serious Complaints" (Ex. 4) is similar in appearance to others I've received as automated replies from the DOJ over the years, and an examination of the headers from it shows it did come from the DOJ's server.

However, the email titled "Out of Office AutoReply: Serious Complaints" (Ex. 5) does not look like anything I've received before from the DOJ. An examination of the headers shows this email came from the loopback. It looks as if my original email was also diverted to an account outside the DOJ, where it generated an automatic reply that came back along the same false route. This means that when I sent my original email to the DOJ, I received two automated replies, one from the DOJ that was authentic, and a second one that was a fake from the path I'd sent my original email on.

These duplicate automated responses show that whoever is behind the MITM attacks on my computer gets immediate copies of everything I send and has software already set up to send an immediate automatic response back to me that looks just like whatever path I sent my email on--but is actually fake. This means that whoever has been attacking my computer has software specifically designed to enable them to impersonate federal agencies and officials.


As you've no doubt guessed by now, these examples document a number of very serious federal offenses. Although these are examples of past crimes, my computer continues to be attacked in this way, making it nearly impossible for me to accurately communicate with people or agencies that are trying to help us. Furthermore, I have documented evidence of additional federal offenses committed against me through my computer that I choose not to post at this time, although I may well post these at a later date.

As a wise friend recently commented, "No wonder so many people think that stalking is a government plot."