Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Total Infiltration

My perps have hacked into my company's computer network and my home network. Here's how I know:

1. Working at home on my work-issued laptop, connected to my company's supposedly ultra secure network through a VPN, the perps caused my laptop to shut down by itself three times in 30 minutes. (Literally as if an invisible hand were closing programs one by one, then shutting down, all in sequence.)

I took video of the third incidence and showed it to my network administrator, who freaked out and said there is no other explanation except a hacker intrusion. But after months of trying to figure out how it happened, the network guys gave up. They call it their "biggest unsolved mystery" (with a chuckle nowadays) but what I would give if somehow I could convince them of the malicious reality of what happened.

2. Using my wireless network, the perps can interfere with any audio file I play on my home computers. They can cause it to stop and rewind, to make sounds like a record being scratched, or simply to stop the playback. (The same audio file plays fine on other peoples' computers in other locations.) I have audio recording of this happening. They love to do this when I am playing my morning "Course in Miracles" lesson before my meditation. But it has stopped since I turned the wireless network off, and began using an ethernet (cabled) network only.

My perps infiltrate my work location and crouch above the ceiling tiles above my work space, and tap on the ceiling fixtures above any meeting room I am in. (Same tapping pattern every time, every meeting I attend. Two colleagues who routinely attend the same meetings have noticed the "odd tapping" but of course there is no way I could postulate what it really is!)

This did not start happening at work until after one evening when I accessed my corporate network via web mail over my home wireless network. I figure that was when they found their "tunnel" into our corporate LAN, thus, into my Outlook email, thus they know every meeting location where I am.

Brilliant fellers, huh? But they seem so frustrated that I realize exactly what they are doing, and simply have learned to ignore it. Which is really not that hard to do once you get over the sheer absurdity of the intimidation attempt. Because, let's get real, just how threatening can a perp be when he is crouching in the crawl space above your work cube?

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