In the world, signal is blocked by materials. Mistral, a systems engineering company focusing on the embedded market, advises engineers concerned with WiFi signal strength, “[t]he first thing to do is to check the construction of the walls” (“Dos and Don’ts of WiFi connectivity: Maximizing Range and Reception,” https://www.mistralsolutions.com/articles/dos-donts-wi-fi-connectivity-maximizing-range-reception/). While materials like drywall, glass, and plywood do not degrade WiFi signal, materials including metal, stone, brick, cement and double-glazed glass can pose problems. Specifically, because metal absorbs WiFi signals, the reach of surveillance solutions and certain mobbing solutions may be impeded between the floors of buildings or in buildings with reinforced concrete walls.
Spending more time within the concrete basement story of my home has made it more difficult for the mobbers to access me through windows and to interfere with me and my devices using line-of-sight radiating antennas. But they’re resourceful and, as I pointed out in other entries years back, they know their materials (Sound is a pressure, and a tip on getting the most out of acoustic board (part 2)). So they’ve put other methods to work which seem to include the use of smart speakers to blast sound into the venting system of the house and the transport of sound by running water along the sides of the house or running water to trigger a sump pump at the back of one of the houses. Sump pumps and other motors can emit infrasound, which more easily surmounts obstacles. The radio waves of walkie-talkies penetrate ground story windows. It would take a researcher to tell us for sure, but based on my experience I suspect that subwoofers or smart speakers like the Sonos or other compatible systems may be effective when strategically placed in subterranean locations close to the victim lot or channeled through venting or pipes.
Mistral advises engineers how to ensure adequate signal. If you’re a victim of house mobbing, smartphone mobbing, or any kind of WiFi stalking, you might benefit from understanding how signal is diminished. To impede mobbing, you’ll do better with walls that are not made with porous materials. Elevators—for example, those that you might see in a condo—may be noisy to live around but can also block WiFi. So an elevator between a surveillance camera and the wireless access point that supports it can be a good thing if the camera is suspicious. Having that understanding will help you to recognize greater vulnerabilities in your environment. I’ve been thinking about removing the window tinting that I pasted to the panes of my front windows when the mobbing first started and I concluded that my neighbors must be watching me through the windows. But now that I know that tinting weakens signal and probably does help to diminish the signal that the mobbers rely on to monitor and harass me in my own home by using directional antennas or radiating devices, I’ll leave the tinting for a while longer. Similarly, because I have not been able to be sure whether the mobbers are accessing the tuner of my not-so-smart older television or the Roku that I use these days, I recently changed the position of my television so that its back was not accessible at the windows to which the north mobbing house owner has line-of-sight visibility from verandas on multiple stories. I tried to block access to the television tuner altogether by putting it in front of my brick fireplace, however, my home is an older traditional residence with ample windows and the fireplace is framed by windows on either side. It’s also important to be able to minimize the risks of sound or video transfer from line-of-sight locations so that you can be reasonably certain of transmission by WiFi.
In cases like mine where bad actors are using technology to coerce their victims for some criminal end, they may focus directional antennas on you to harm you, to damage your devices, and to intimidate you by using signal to create interference on your devices even as you stare at their screens and type on their keys. This is not safe and should be considered assault, domestic terrorism, or even torture. Perhaps this kind of coercion explains some of the strange stories on the web of people who complain they are being stalked by those in their neighborhoods and are waking up with burns or the sensation of being burned. Maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to assume they are mentally ill. Maybe we shouldn’t let the scams of criminals fool us so quickly.
I woke up this morning with severe dizziness, which has never happened to me before and which may well be related the recent eye symptoms and headaches I’ve suffered as a result of the intensified attacks on me in my own home using smart speakers emitting ultrasonic and infrasonic sound, radiating devices, and radio interference created with destructive intent. Hours later my temples ache, I remain dizzy, and I don’t know if the tactics of these people, some of whom appear to hold medical licenses, have now succeeded in doing me grave harm. It’s hard to believe that there are people running around the “free world” with medical licenses who front clandestine activities to psychically and physically harass and harm others for criminal purposes (Moral harassment and mobbing). What attraction does criminal harassment and domestic terrorism hold for medical professionals outside of the Third Reich, and what kind of medical professionals are these? Surely ethical practitioners don’t want their professions used to hide hate criminals, vigilantes, domestic terrorists, or Nazi doctors whose era is denied them by the passage of time.
My move from my bedroom into the basement for sleep at least changed the effect of the overnight harassment and may have opened up new avenues for harm. For example, during the same period of time that I noticed increased electrical interference in my environment and a possible laser- or wireless charging device that appeared to be directed towards my residence from the home of the nasty neighborhood watch lady across the way, the south mobbing house owner appeared to set up a directional speaker to emit what might have been ultrasonic sound into my home through venting or seams in the construction as I tried to sleep through the whips of his jump rope and the swings of his kettleballs in his early morning Crossfit routine near the south wall and garage entry of my home. It’s possible that the weapon of choice might have been a radiating device deployed from the north house, but the matter venting into my home that made my head hurt and face feel burned did include sound.
This is another case where the failure to investigate or believe reports of odd events works against the common good, encourages the crime and results in others being harmed in the same way. Predatory crimes like mobbing cannot be solved without investigating those who mob.
The harmful interference may be generated within the devices and not primarily on the WiFi networks of those targeted by real estate mobbers or others who use methods like directional antennas to focus rogue transmissions of signal or sound. Devices like routers are poorly shielded and prone to interference. The FCC typically holds device owners responsible for shielding their devices from unwanted signal. Despite the laws on radio interference that is deemed to be intentional and criminal or jamming, the crowding of radio bands with noisy “interferers” creates a huge grey area that mobbers exploit.
Mobbing signal is rogue signal. The increased awareness of and concern about signal hacks and the malicious use of signal is evident in the sales of Faraday cages and shielding containers and materials on sites like Amazon.com. Faraday enclosures can be used to block electromagnetic fields and can prevent radio transmitters, for example, from interfering with electronic devices (“Faraday cage,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage). Hence the interest in the purchase of “signal blockers” for car keys and credit cards. I was already being mobbed when I abandoned my phreaked landline for an iPhone and took to storing the phone in a pouch lined with shielding material. The use of a Faraday enclosure would help to minimize the malicious access of my phone by signal. As I became increasingly convinced that the mobbers were using the wireless interfaces of my devices even when WiFi was disabled at my router, I experimented with wrapping devices that do not generate much heat with Faraday material for a few hours at a time in my attempt to reduce the attack surface exposed to the mobbers. But you can’t block and shield your life. You can’t shield yourself when your neighbors point hidden radiating devices into your windows. Mobbers who’ve moved in around you can always fall back on the use of proximity, the reach of high- and low-frequency sound provided by systems like Sonos, the punishing use of radiating devices, or devices equipped with AM and FM radio transmitters like drones or walkie-talkies, and they do. Ultimately the problem in criminal harassment is the criminals.
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