On being mobbed

[Note 04/26/21: Even without checking for rogue access points, if you suspect you are being victimized by power line connection you can try the strategy of shutting off outlets to see if the harassment is quieted. Start with experimenting to find the circuit breakers that control the outlets on the exterior walls of the house. The walls that are targeted for this kind of harassment are likely to be exterior walls where your electric meter and circuit breaker box, your communications service boxes, and your coaxial or other conductive copper wires are installed.]

[Note 04/09/21: In my writing on On being mobbed, I typically avoid giving advice that I may not be qualified to give to others that might not be appropriate for their situations. This short blog was quickly written to share information with others who might be harassed over a power line connection to their home. It should be clear at this point, that what the criminals who call themselves mobbers do is dangerous. At minimum, it is sabotage that is intended to frighten you out of your home. The practice is highly criminal and amounts to tampering, sabotage, and even domestic terrorism. This is a matter for federal authorities; local police may not be useful and may be subject to influence from those who mob, which makes the situation increasingly dangerous. When you read this or any other entry on this site, do not construe what I say as advice. I cannot advise you; I do not know your situation and do not presume to know what is right for you. I am simply sharing my experiences and telling you what I have learned. In a situation like this where those authorities who should help do not, the risks we take are our own.]

Even worse than the feeble security provided to consumers by the companies that provision and market digital services, is the failure to anticipate the intrusions, hacks and attacks that residential infrastructure invites. The layering of bandwidth over coaxial, digital subscriber line (DSL), and fiber-optics by communication protocols and technologies designed to help data get where it needs to be makes it ever harder for consumers to know how to respond to at-home harassment. It’s not enough for the victims of digital crimes to face police who ridicule them and the city attorneys who fall for criminal claims that the victims are the harassers. Victims must also consider whether they are being harassed over wires that belong to broadcast television providers or telephone providers, over unused and abandoned infrastructure, or over a service currently under subscription. And this doesn’t even begin to consider the convergence of technologies that allows phones to broadcast television, for example. If our lives are shortened or lost because of the predatory crimes this less-than-secure infrastructure and these technologies and devices invite, it won’t be simply because of the failure of cities like Seattle to heed the reports of the residents who are victimized.

This quick countermeasure offers a stopgap measure to those who are being mobbed like I am being mobbed in Seattle’s South Cedar Park neighborhood. This countermeasure might help you to figure out whether power line technology is involved in the “whole-house harassment” that is property mobbing. More importantly, this countermeasure might help you to minimize the harassment that has infiltrated your home and might convince companies like Seattle City Light to respond as they should.

After writing the most recent posts about how infrastructure mobbing easily involves every service box and wire affixed to the side of a home, there was no getting around the potential positioning of the electric meter as a post in the mobbers’ malicious pinball machine. When shutting off WiFi and even shutting down the router doesn’t stop the mobbing, it makes sense that this systemic harassment is finding transport over other systems. I’ve kept unused appliances and devices off all along, so it wasn’t much of a stretch to begin to experiment with the household circuit breaker box, not once I read about carrier current transmission anyway.

Consider trying the following:

Put devices on battery power and see what happens. Purchase a rechargeable battery that provides AC power. If you use a CPAP device and your device is being mobbed, consider trying a travel CPAP or putting your CPAP on a medical battery. The goal here is to insulate the devices you use from household electricity that might have been tampered with. The plus here can be finding that devices like air purifiers circulate much less harassment. (Note 04/09/21: It’s likely that the rogue sound of mobbing is always packaged as a form of radiation or electric interference. This means that when your devices “circulate harassment,” they are likely to be circulating harmful interference whose transport over your device damages the device and contaminates your environment. If you’re using a medical device whose parts are or can function as antennas or radios, or whose function includes power supplies that are subject to carrier current connection or the generation of any kind of current that can transport a sound wave, the mobbers may knowingly be turning your devices into radiating devices or, in other words, radiating you with your own devices. This is patently criminal.) [Note 05/10/21: If these criminals are using devices on extenders that can make other devices radiate or if they’re able to affect the battery you use via extender, laser or other device, operating a medical device with a medical battery may not protect you.]

Turn off the circuit breakers for devices you don’t need or are not using. This takes some work since most circuit breaker boxes are poorly labeled and it can be difficult to functionally distinguish one circuit from another. In my case, I’m finding the following strategies most effective: Shutting down appliances, and shutting down power outlets. The goal is to interrupt the power in the house so that mobbing harassment that is riding on household electrical current is interrupted on its way to you.

Shut down power outlets. Shutting down the outlets you don’t need could be a game changer. Especially when those outlets are on exterior walls or walls across which a rogue access point may be deployed. A characteristic behavior of power line connections is the leakage of radio frequency from outlets. This kind of behavior is similar to one expert’s description of microwave energy attacks, interestingly enough. I’ll try to find the reference in another recent blog and add it here. Note that this technique may be the most successful for victims of mobbing or stalking over power line connection who occupy a single-family dwelling. Victims of mobbing who are being stalked and harassed in multiple-family dwellings using WiFi extender or power line connection may not be able to control the distribution of electricity into their homes.

The hard part is finding out how to turn off the most outlets without disabling things like the refrigerator. You need to be cautious in how you use this strategy. You don’t want to turn off safety systems you need. Consider striking a balance between turning off too little power and turning off so much that you find yourself going down to the basement with a flashlight in the wee hours to turn on the breaker that supports the household heater. But if you get it right you might be surprised by an immediate effect. In my case, as soon as I shut down the power to the outlets on certain exterior walls of the Bay Area house, the sound went from being heard as though inside to being dimly heard as though outside.

Keep windows cracked open. Keep the airflow going–at least, keep the airflow going that is not generated by electricity. I’m not sure exactly why this is crucial, whether it simply lessens the build-up of signal or provides an opposing current, but combining this countermeasure with disabling power to outlets is effective. [05/03/21 Note: I don’t know if I made this clear but I did find an article on Powerline that explained the technology performs better with more walls. Makes sense. More walls probably means better containment of signal and signal strength. Opening windows may help for this reason; so might opening doors depending on the devices that are in play. In another post I mention that the north mobbing house owner in Seattle said that if I opened the windows they’d “shoot it right in” to me. Mobbers don’t want you to figure out how to minimize the effects of the harassment; they want you to give up, abandon your legal rights and contracts, and leave your home.]

Consider power conditioning for those devices that you must frequently plug in. I theorized that power conditioning might insulate my devices from further damage and might help to minimize the “dirty” electricity that power line technology is known to create. There’s the caveat, however, that the power conditioner may not control voltage, for example, until it exceeds 130 volts for United States applications. And mobbers might bank on keeping voltage spikes within whatever range is acceptable to the local power company. In addition to power conditioning, I did get Greenwave filters to try and minimize the EMFs that some believe can harm. I have no expertise vis-a-vis electrical systems or power quality issues but hoped that power conditioning might clean up some of the dirty electricity on the wire. These measures are add-ons and I’m using the Greenwave filters less since they eliminate dirty power through capacitors that might be useful to mobbers to create additional interference or disturbances in power. Some power conditioners can be found on Amazon for less than $100. [Note 08/09/21: I noted in a later blog that I stopped using the Greenwave filters because, perhaps because they work by capacitor, they seemed to exacerbate some ill effects of the mobbing. Moreover, I was using them on outlets that are now disabled most of the time anyway.]

The combination of turning some AC-powered devices into battery-powered devices and disabling those pesky outlets can make a huge difference. Going off the grid is perhaps the most effective countermeasure I’ve found. But if a power line connection is in play, the urgency of getting the police, the power company and the city to respond is even greater. I’ll write more about the likely implications of being harassed over power line connection in my next post.

Note that this countermeasure does not eliminate the mobbing on devices that allow ingress via network connection. And this is still not the post “Smart meters, carrier current transmission and the mobbers’ radio.” But if you’re in my situation, these few steps might prove more useful.

Stay tuned.