On being Mobbed

[Note 04/20/22: Another interaction that may be confirmatory of the involvement of wireless power or perhaps a high degree of radio frequency or carrier current communication, is the clipped verbal harassment that comes up with the chiming of the battery-powered alarm clocks that replaced my Proton radios after the mobbing started. This morning in my long-time rental home in Seattle is a case in point. I’ve used “silent” alarm clocks that emit only an alarm tone and have increasingly experimented with shielding these cheap plastic clocks. I’ve also noticed the involvement of the batteries in remote controls and have suspected the involvement of some power banks in the harassment. This likely indicates the vulnerability of medical devices; I recently saw an online article about a lawsuit over excessive radio frequency interfering with a medical insulin provider.]

[Note 04/21/22: Mobbing is constructed to create clandestine in-home terror. Some of those who are attracted to the practice of mobbing likely have a taste for stalking women. This means that the same techniques being used by real estate speculators for forced eviction can probably be found outside of real estate speculation and in cases of domestic violence.]

In early 2021, as I continued to investigate the possibility of power line interference into the electrical service of my childhood home in Albany, I attempted to engage PG&E on the matter. As detailed in Smart meters, carrier current transmission and the mobbers’ radio (part 1), PG&E was good enough to send out a lineman to remove the Comcast line fastened close to the service drop for the house and run to the line between two poles on the street. The lineman indicated that the high-voltage wires looked fine from a distance and there was little else he could do. He told me he would refer the matter on to PG&E’s communications department. I never heard another word. That was probably after I had the smart meter replaced with an old-school analog meter.

Both in Seattle and in Albany, I worked to remove old infrastructure back to the utility pole and to minimize my attack surface by dismantling obsolete service boxes and eliminating radiating coaxial and other cabling from exposure on the outside of the house. This visit from the lineman was the closest I got, after repeated requests to PG&E in Albany, and to Seattle’s Seattle City Light, to an inspection of the utility pole itself. While sites like the UK’s Ban Power Line Technology acknowledge deliberate “spectrum abuse” by neighbors, getting help with utility issues that should be useful indicators of the vast vulnerabilities of the American grid is near impossible, beginning with getting a knowledgeable utility representative on the phone or even one who doesn’t respond to you as though you’re a whacko. When you’re being victimized by power line technology by your neighbors, moreover, you can bet that if PG&E pulls up with a truck, the neighbors will be notified by their IoT monitoring systems and will disconnect the malicious extenders and radiators, or at least the transmitters of the harassment that is audible or otherwise sensed. This could even be done programmatically as criminals and criminal networks adopt autonomous harassing machines to systematize the local delivery of terror.

The Ban Power Line Technology site includes information about how the effects of power line technology do not necessarily stop at the transformer but can easily radiate over the line to neighboring services. Because the configuration of the communications wiring at the pole has bearing on the potential for power line interference, it’s important to have visibility of local poles. These days, with increasing numbers of drone services, visibility of the state of the utility poles that serve our homes is easier than ever before.

I’m not qualified to critique the configuration of the wires of a utility pole or whether any of them are attached in a manner that might create interference into other services. But there are people out there who are.

In my case, in Seattle there was the day early in the mobbing when a no-name Woodinville “satellite” service truck pulled up to work on the pole shared by the nasty neighborhood watch lady, the south mobbing house owner, and me. In Albany, there was the day when I stood on the steps of the house and a guy walking rapidly down the other side of the street called out to me to tell me, unasked, that the guy on the utility pole was “okay” because he was with a truck. Both of these incidents are documented in earlier posts. It’s possible that, to avoid raising questions from the provider of communications services, third-party services might be used to add additional services to support a mobbing or that those with know-how might be paid to install services used to mob. I can’t be sure. But with deliberate “spectrum abuse” that can radiate back to the line and to a neighbor, it’s something that should be considered. We might also need to consider the interaction between utility wires and the vehicles that park beneath them. For example, the white Mercedes Sprinter RV with the apparent solar panel on its top that’s been parked just south of this house for the last three or four days, its front antenna line-of-sight from my bedroom window in an ongoing mobbing. [Note 04/17/22: The Mercedes Sprinter RV was reparked in a driveway, so far as I could tell, the morning after I published this. The lowlife cleared out for the weekend, judging from the absence of the lowlife vehicle with the aftermarket LED lights on the hood. That night a van I’d never before seen parked in front of the Albany house–mobbing seem to include a lot of vans and RVs when the owners of the mobbing houses need an assist, so I wasn’t that surprised when I got up after another round of overnight harassment and heard the van start and pull away from the curb. In earlier posts, I refer to the sometimes lighter harassment around holidays as the result of “staffing issues.” All you need is the proliferation of wireless services and those of dubious character think it’s an opportunity to get away with a criminal conspiracy. I wouldn’t be surprised, based on the apparent network of “mobbers” that seems to be supported by the National Neighborhood Watch and similar local and federal programs, if it was something of a pyramid scheme in which these tawdry neighborhood crooks play strangers on a train as they plot to turn over neighboring dwellings for low-end builders in return for discounts on repairs, free housing, or perhaps a foot in the door on future “investments.” Harassment with WiFi extenders and LED lights certainly represents the mainstreaming of criminal harassment. No wonder there is discussion of the development of a “scam culture” in the United States.]

There’s no excuse for giving people who are being criminally harassed in their homes and over public infrastructure the run-around. Ignoring the factors that enable mobbing encourages predatory crimes on individuals and could in the future provide an easy target for acts of sabotage or terror on a larger scale. No technology exists in a vacuum; IoT is an ecosystem. The interactions between technologies and devices must be more thoroughly evaluated and understood. It’s possible to at least create codes and laws prohibiting the operation of radios in parked work trucks and RVs. Codes can be made about the use of charging and inverters in RVs parked within city limits. What’s the use of saying something if no one is listening? Someone is responsible.

A few more pole pictures to follow. For a video on the Ban Power Line Technology website on how electromagnetic induction can make power line technology into radio, see https://www.ban-plt.org.uk/videos.php. [Note 04/30/22: I don’t know if I’ll get around to sanitizing and posting anymore of the imagery from the drone service I used in Albany; however, I did upload all of that data to the file hosting service I use and it is available to investigators with other data I’ve uploaded over the last few years.]