On being mobbed

The account of an ongoing bid to harass a legal tenant out of her Seattle neighborhood


Air conditioners are the entry point to the grid, and a postcard from Seattle’s South Cedar Park

[Note 04/27/22: It’s important to be explicit about the routes that transport the substrate for the mobbers’ radio. In earlier posts I’ve pointed out that major appliances like hot water heaters, furnaces and refrigerators seem to at least act as distributors. At the Seattle house, the stove, offering a built in vent fan and oven convection feature, is clearly involved. This is less obvious at the Albany house where the oven, stove top, and vent are separate components built into an island with outlets and venting built in. These devices radiate or circulate heat or air and conduct heat and air exchange. The Albany refrigerator has a low-voltage intake fan on the back wall that worked incessantly and seemed under the control of the mobbers, like some other lower voltage devices that might easily be controlled by rogue IoT management software or perhaps a bit of ambient power. These devices may also use “noisy” power supplies that generate radio-frequency interference. These components can ensure continued ingress of the malicious harassment. Significantly, this method of ingress for the mobbers’ substrate, whether it is matter from a generator distributed through structural fissures and holes or the product of another reaction across household circuits, appears to ensure that the noxious matter is not only ambient but that your food and perhaps even your water is exposed as these criminals continue to mob you even as you restrict your use of power. The distribution is much more evident when circuits and devices are off; this could be because the substrate somehow pools. Opening the refrigerator door can be instructive. Perhaps the mobbers seek to hide their bad acts in our awareness and fear of indoor air pollution.]

One connection between the felony stalking and hararessment that the nasty neighborhood watch lady of Seattle instigated with the felony stalking and harassment that involves a “block coordinator” in Albany, California, is the familiar taunts, threats, and babble uttered by at least a subset of familiar voices. This might indicate that many of the taunts and voices are shared or distributed over the Internet or maybe by cell phone, perhaps even from some forum or chatroom where those who make hurting others their vocation gather. After all, some months back I did see in the On being mobbed stats referrals from a gun forum known for its misogyny. [Note 05/19/22: Tonight on a Bay Area news broadcast, there was a short piece on the prosecution of anti-choice activists for stalking and harassing an abortion provider. The harassment featured statements like, “We know what you do,” which sounded a lot like the mobbers’ frequent refrain, “We know what you did,” and made me again consider the possibility of an alliance between real estate speculators, hate culture and the religious right. Ethics don’t seem to matter so long as properties are “cleared.”]

But there are a lot more connections between how the mobbing plays in Albany and in Seattle, including the way it has changed as I keep much of the power off at the electric panel. In Seattle where I am now, shutting down the main breaker in the panel has somehow pulled back the veil. The withdrawal of current, the likely carrier current or distributor for dirty electricity, WiFi or radio frequency, or exhaust makes clear that in Albany and Seattle alike, some kind of foreign matter or particulate is being shunted into the living spaces of my home. This is increasingly clear as I struggle to clean the air of the polluted clouds while simultaneously minimizing the electricity I use. Perhaps this “mobbing” is in fact a known criminal scam built around using a power generator to boost radio frequency and create rogue hot spots inside the victim home. Federal investigators should arrest the perpetrators of this dangerous scam before the nasty neighborhood watch lady and her co-conspirators kill someone.

“We’re in the wind,” a female mobber taunted me years ago, a statement I concluded was an allusion to radio waves. I can’t help but wonder whether the tittering young women who helped to monitor and harass me especially in the earlier months of the mobbing knew that what was being transmitted into my home was not simply sound, whether they knew they were participating in a scam that might sabotage medical devices, suffocate, sicken, or kill. Did they know they were participating in a scam whose goal was forced eviction? Did they know that those involved would not settle for my rental home in Seattle but would follow me to the San Francisco Bay Area to make good their crime? Since a Berkeley electrician told me about a “generator” that makes sounds, it seems likely that what’s in the “wind” is the WiFi for a hot spot from a power generator, and whatever particulate and toxins the substrate picks up along the way. But “wind” could also refer to one of the air conditioners or venting fans I’ve talked about here in Seattle at the houses north and south, or in Albany at the lowlife house to the north. After all, I see only the vent–I’ve no idea of the device shielded from view.

A couple of days ago, I came across the 2018 article Wired article, “How to hack the power grid through home air conditioners” (https://www.wired.com/2016/02/how-to-hack-the-power-grid-through-home-air-conditioners/). The focus is on how access to the air conditioner’s remote on/off capability can be manipulated to endanger power customers and wreak havoc on the power grid. The article explains that the air conditioning exploits require little skill and can be effected by boosting and “replaying” commands. The point is the vulnerability of the grid, something I brought up when I wrote PG&E about how my electricity was being sabotaged by the use of WiFi extenders. According to Wired, “All a hacker would need is to be on the same radio frequency as the utility company, and then they could monitor and record the commands the company sends to the devices (a technique known as sniffing). From there, they could just play back those recorded commands to other devices to get them to turn on or off (a so-called “replay” attack).” Jamming radio frequency traffic to the devices could prevent the ability to shut them down during peak hours and result in power outages across a grid of interdependent devices. I’ve concluded based on my experiences with being mobbed, that jamming is a strong component, and that the jamming signal is noise.

These last few days in Seattle, I’ve been reviewing some Airtool wireless frame captures–even if you try to avoid WiFi, you can still collect packets. I noticed the vendor OUI EquipTra, for a French company called Equip’Trans.

It was difficult to find much English language information about the company but one of the search results indicated that the company made components that could transform wind into electricity. This got me to thinking about the windmill that the north mobbing house owner positioned close to the fence during a period of time when some acrid substance infiltrated the house. I’ve considered the mobbers’ use of obsolete devices to create interference and suppose it’s possible that appliances generating air might be energy efficient devices that convert some part of their product into the energy they require to run. Nevertheless, given the difficulty I’ve been having keeping the noxious level down in this small house these last few drizzly days, the possibility came to mind of malicious actors soldering a component into a fanned device like a windmill or exhaust fan to cause the device to emit ambient power to interfere with the electrical system of the victim house. Another possibility might be deploying such a converter into their configuration to be used via power line connection or over an extender to cause a victim’s air purifiers to spew interfering electricity. Is that what these people think real estate investors do? So far as I can see, these are the undertakings of psychopaths, criminals and haters. If federal investigators want to stop this scam, it shouldn’t be too hard. All you have to do is investigate. Subpoena the nasty neighborhood watch captain. Let her tell you how it was set up. Let her tell you how the Albany block coordinator became involved. Early mornings are a good time to be in my neighborhood, whether in Seattle or in Albany. A surveillance drone would probably make it easy to pick up the comings and goings of those who participate. A sound camera might be a good complement. Couple that with an inventory of appliances, devices, antennas, interfering lights and so on. No doubt some of those who expect to profit from this kind of criminal harassment have cultivated “kits” of the devices they find most satisfying to use to hurt others. Investigation is important because many people will not survive the situation long enough to put it together, and it is only with understanding how this exploit is done that we can make the changes necessary to stop it. [Note 07/06/22: One connection I have not adequately explored, is that of the emission of EMFs, speakers, and harassment using the Sonos or other ultrasonic sound system. Not too long along I noticed a post on a Sonos forum about the level of EMFs emitted by the Sonos sound system and it has occurred to me that boosting RF and increased emission of EMFs might support the extension of harassing sound into the victim environment. I’ve also wondered what the effect would be of using powerline technology to network Sonos onto victim electrical wiring. Sonos does not support the use of powerline technology last I checked.]

In the following screenshot, I use a different color for each of the SSIDs identified in the comments. This approach might be helpful to understand scenarios in which multiple devices are deployed across multiple residences and Comcast hot spots as well as scenarios in which a bad actor installs multiple services and deploys multiple routers and extenders to boost radio frequency while hiding his identity in a half-dozen SSIDs.

It’s late. Perhaps I’ll add more later on. These frame captures and many others have been uploaded to a file hosting service and are available to investigators interested in making the most of this opportunity to stop a dangerous criminal scam perpetrated by neighborhood watch captains and others entrusted with the public good.



the lay of the land

Air conditioners are the entry point to the grid, and a postcard from Seattle’s South Cedar Park

Mobbing is extremism (part 2)

Lighting and mobbers’ living-off-the-land exploits

Mobbing by WiFi range extender

The mobbers’ “World Wireless System” and hate culture in Albany, California (part 1)

The mobbers’ “World Wireless System” and hate culture in Albany, California (part 2)

The mobbers’ “World Wireless System” and hate culture in Albany, California (part 3)

Infrastructure crimes: Mobbing with interference; extraction by heat (part 3)

Mobbing, infrasound and leaky feeders (part 2)

Mobbing, infrasound and leaky feeders (part 1)

Smart meters, carrier current transmission and the mobbers’ radio (part 1)

Stop mobbing crimes with data: Airtool for wireless capture

Stop mobbing crimes with data: Visualize nearby networks with NetSpot

Is this a radio? Look what the mobbers made!

Pictures from a mobbing (part 2)

Pictures from a mobbing (part 1)

Gang-stalking: Invest in real estate! No money down! (part 2)

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