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Ask HN: Rat in My Network

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Edit: oh, god, should've known this would be HN's reaction. I'll be monitoring in case anyone has real advice, but I promise you my mental health is in check.

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Hey man, are you ok? Mentally speaking.

This really shows signs of mental health issues, especially what you posted on your website, nestedparens.com.

"I've mostly just been replying on Text Edit on my mac, and they've been replying through Twitter and various official Youtube channels from around hollywood."

"There's a lot of people from around tech involved."

Yeah, I'm good.

It's sounds incredibly unbelievable so I've been reluctant to share. I'm just looking for technical help.

kashav, my advice is to take a break to spend several days with your family or lifelong friends. Someone you can trust to tell you if you have changed and trust to give you medical advice.

A good friend described similar issues. From "them" following him when driving, people hiding in walls, being the target of network snooping and key logging. Schizophrenia/Paranoia. Ended in a hospital telling doctors somebody was trying to kill him at night (there were cameras, nobody was there of course). He eventually got help and medication. You might not think or expect this answer: but get professional psycological help.

"They" don't exist.

"Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (i.e. "Everyone is out to get me")." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia

This was my first reaction too, maybe we're wrong, but you could save yourself a lot of pain by ruling it out, go see a quack.

My machine is a 2017 MacBook Pro, and I have Eero mesh wifi routers with a Hitron CODA modem from Rogers (I'm in Canada). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have little snitch running on my Mac but haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. I've played around with firewall settings on the modem and router, and have tried some of the Eero pro features. Nothing has helped.

Sounds like you might have a carbon monoxide leak in your apartment. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_post...

It sounds like you're the victim of a crime, normally you'd call the police instead of a lawyer. I'm not saying they'd be any more useful, but it's not surprising a lawyer can't help out here.

Try to start from using definitely clear devices for building a trusted network. Copy all important files which are not executable to trusted disk, then get rid of unsafe devices.

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