On being mobbed

[NOTE: Tenants and home owners should be warned that real estate “investors” may attempt to meet and compel sales or manipulate “reluctant” sellers by responding to ads to rent rooms in shared homes and perhaps even to rent houses. This blog reposts a message written to a Facebook housing group about a contact from an… Continue reading

More of a macro than an app, this anti-stalking app targets the onboard capabilities of the Mac to use the Airtool application to capture wireless packets without need for an external adapter to support monitor mode. A Windows-based machine typically requires a special adapter that supports monitor mode, for example, the AirPcap adapter. Mobbing victims… Continue reading

Mobbing exploits wireless services including WiFi and charging processes. This is clear both in Albany, California and in Seattle, Washington. The impact of mobbing exploits that leverage wireless processes in Tesla and other EVs does not appear to be limited to inverters or DC power but may extend to the capabilities of onboard security cameras,… Continue reading

Mobbing attacks the rights of victims both criminally and civilly. In cases where mobbers seek to interfere with their victim’s inheritance rights, mobbers may cultivate and seek to exploit a relationship with a Trustee, Executor, or another who has control over assets that are designated to the victim (Lighting and mobbers’ living-off-the-land exploits). This may… Continue reading

If “Bogus cops and crypto ATMs” hadn’t hooked me, the opening paragraph of a Berkeleyside article about a teacher losing her life savings to phone scammers would have: For 27 hours straight, a team of four scammers posing as Oakland police kept her on the phone and isolated, manipulating the John Muir elementary teacher into… Continue reading

America rolled out the National Neighborhood Watch (NNW) in 1972, and pushed back on inclusion. We allowed a citizen watch and wound up with neighborhood surveillance. We accepted a police-organized program and were encircled by the long arm of the law. We envisioned a world of “pre-crime” prediction and got a world shaped by fear. Continue reading

I do what I can to thwart the mobbers, staying up late for a few minutes of quiet after they give up for the night. Then I might go sleep in a different room. Or I might not. The last few nights, after unplugging the Sonic fiber service and the one lamp I light, I… Continue reading

In a press release dated August 1, 2025, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced an “orderly wind-down” of operations. The exclusion of federal funding for CPB from the 2026 bill leaves the corporation no choice but to fold and shut down the national public media system (Press Release | Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses… Continue reading

Having few employers and an insufficient revenue stream, the City of Albany, California boasts of its schools. It’s back to school time now and what Albany is teaching, is that when “investors” want a woman’s home, it’s hunky dory to batter her out of it. Continue reading

[Note 11/11/25: Yet another update. A few days ago I initiated the process of moving the onbeingmobbed.com domain back to WordPress.com, to point at the original instance of the On being mobbed blog. The WordPress server I used to create a manual mirror of the site was set up differently and the differences resulted in… Continue reading