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Did anyone else notice that if you install Fidelity app it is tightly integrated into messaging app- such that if you wanted to uninstall “messaging” on iOS it first suggests you uninstall Fidelity app? I find this odd given I have had a major major incident with a team that must have some level of access to a lot of platforms including messaging. It is not going to surprise me if they have Infosys doing the monitoring and the person spearheading all of this pain is a guy there who thought I reported another guy for harassment in 2013 (I had not). The mobile platform and app stalking has been intensely impactful. I have to do a lot of hypothesizing, as so little transparency is offered to who is accessing your usage.

Check iOS-settings-messaging-iMessage Apps. What is this?

Have three identities confirmed - yet the individuals doing the harassment all know best evidence has to come from law enforcement and the logs - not my screenshots. It's part of the game they play with the data.

This data is already "re-identified" by some somebodies. And complete intent to harm over a course of 5 years proven out. I have evidence, lots of it. The individuals initially affected by the search leak need to be notified by a representative of AOL and probably SOE. Time to stop the dark patterns of attribution games and ready the individuals for what is to come. If I had been caught alone, I probably would have not made it through the harassment that came from the people that have re-identified the data.

My data is in this list someone used for "research". They evidently correlated with Sony Everquest Chats, LinkedIn, Twitter, AOL, corporate email, Meta, Amazon Purchases, Natural Language Processing Data collections, some DFIR (digital forensics) data collection, HR records and so much more. I would say at the time they collected the info I was planning renaissance fest attire, studying security topics and frantically figuring out identities of some gamers who dogpiled on me as a few made genuine threats towards my life and livelihood.

I'd say yes, throw disinformation at at, as once I started noticing someone was really doing that level of tracking I did throw disinfo at it... a lot. The problem was with their interpretations from there of searches intentionally made to mess them up - as I neither had consent yet realized I was being stalked.

That went on and on and on - until people died - my father thought I was swatting him (I had a welfare check made - not a swat - as they were disclosing his financial advisor and info - he's white and safe presumably) . Yet yes, people did die. It is evident no one understands it is never just them in research or in a channel for conversations. The result of the whole thing was my childhood best friend also being left homeless and run over (by someone opportunistic in the whole process). My brother de-housed by a gang member a party kept sending about (one actually poisoned my dog). My father alienated. My sister used as a puppet for extortion instead of being rehabbed.

It's very very very ugly the string of deaths and alienation that came from what they thought was funny research into AI.

This old data needs to be located and disposed of or put into proper custodianship. It's grown teeth that cost lives. Throwing misinfo at it is just crapping up the Internet more to push to web 3.0, where the same problem will thrive. Requires legislation. Not quite relaxed enough to articulate how and what right now due to the extensive harassment that came about from it all. Maybe some day. It's been pretty terrorizing.

I am defined as a logical processor in an assessment somewhere. Your activism towards me hasn’t been working since launched by a disinformation actor precisely December 2019. Would be great if someone can tell me where the forum is.

Interesting info about root cause, culture and errors though. Also I might care.

Put this comment up in every church and every retirement community. I haven’t searched, yet suspect this is the most common elderly fraud besides relatives manipulating them for their estate.

That is an old trick from companies exposed to a great deal of liability to cover the legal and administrative costs of perfection.

Some of these comments are funny. I am sure there are plenty of mistakes made by plenty of competent people as I read the next article about Boeing. Good to analyze root cause ….to a point. Some of you hate brave women, who probably would all be classed as reckless and less trained in much but cooking/laundry in that era, and it shows.

Now clean up the mud from the reckless 4 wheeling you did before lunch.

Really good write up

Very very few companies do. At least they were honest in this case. Not a fan, they were positioned to be leaders not laggers in solutioning.

Distance is the only solution I know of when the malice is significant and it is at an all time high right now in the USA.

Once you have lived through reporting to a telco you have been dealing with fraud - you learn the procedures are in a scripted loop, everywhere. The answer will probably be go to store get new sim and never reach conclusion it was swapped for people who do not investigate their situation. I haven’t dealt with sim swapping yet some pretty heinous organized crime now and the folks are nice yet you will never walk away knowing the cause or source of an incident.

Fear culture eats security for lunch. Good points.

If you are female in Shell, save all your money by 49 and be ready to retire if you have retired from the company. No further tech gigs.

They have some dudes in supply chain who play dirty games over other women who went to arbitration (was not me..never been to arbitration). Will be impossible to have them caught. You will have no dignity when they are done. It is complicated how they do it and at best you will wind up with a best guess of involved parties as there is no legal support in the EEOC after 365 days they will wait.

Some of the involved aren’t even with the company. They have a fully repeatable process for tech workers.

When we were once arguing about what real 2G was….

That’s when you step away. Come back later and take that last statement and spin it to a question instead. Can security have viable costs and incentives- what is a new way to improve it? Can’t see opportunity any more then take a break. I hate the nation state lies they muddy the real issues. That is not saying there are not threats, yet the hype and lazy attribution isn’t improving anything.

No one disagrees. Consider project management; for example, which has had many failed projects, has evolved, is still incredibly imperfect. Health care services, have had many flaws, continue to evolve, are still incredibly imperfect. Marketing, has had many flaws, has advanced, is imperfect. Pick one or two problems and advance them. Try not to kill people in the process which is all too common in tech.

She is an adult. Yes adults get trafficked. Especially good looking ones falling into health and economic challenge. She has a daughter. Children are hurt when adults are trafficked- no one gets this. The trafficked party then used to extort me by someone actually pretending to be “cops” with cross platform analytics and data broker access.

Craziest thing you ever could have imagined and only an extremely rich tech narcissist can come up with what they did to a woman already being trafficked. They did so to secondarily traumatize me.

Who is “law enforcement”. Not “cops” as per YCombinator headline. You can’t get a cop to do a thing about online content. I would really like to know who is feeling bogged down. I have a serious case for them that a person was actually drugged, trafficked and extorted.

So right. I have lived experience with someone who stalked me based on a 20-year-old (literally) 20 years ago - Internet post. At first, I thought they were sarcastic - until they actually drugged my sister and had her call me and I realized they had hired a sex offender to actually stalk me. This app is the same way. No ability to delete or forget what is posted. No one is suing anyone 20 years later, so retention of that data is not needed. It is only kept purely for profiling purposes. Ones that do not seem to add value other than support smear campaign efforts.

Having had first-hand experience, it's like walking into a nice resort at age 50 and having someone at the dining table pick up a brawl from a rugby match 20 years ago, thinking oh hey this is where we left off last I saw you.

No one should have to experience this.

The whole thing is pretty nuts. I'm sure most would just ignore. One of the individuals involved did something quite criminal and deeply personal to a family member, so I am genuinely looking for an answer on how to sweep for possible eves-dropping in this scenario. I have actually worked with people who have access to satellite and security product testing (not privacy filtered consumer services) and they could have motive.

I was attacked quite deliberately in another city and was unable to find the source. It was in a high rise, and GSP with Kismet was marginally useful. Precision was not possible.

I was able to stop the rogue attacks with Cisco Meraki. This was extremely beneficial.

Since I moved, I have had to change channels a few times due to interference. The dashboards in the Meraki, are great at visualizing and identifying sources.

I also made it a point to look ridiculous and walk around to meet the neighbors to understand what is not “rogue” and tell them I was having problems. This was to build an inventory and ensure I didn't accidentally jam something thinking it was a rogue attack. I let them know to inform me if they experienced problems.

Clearly someone was sending waves of wireless hackers my way as a poorly defined joke. Despite efforts to get inventory of my surroundings, there are still a ton of unknown devices in the area I cannot identify with precision, and the area is not highly populated. No one knows how many access points and devices they are running any more for smart lights, cams etc.

Finding the source as far as I can tell may be more feasible here w GPS receiver - yet I have not had a need.

16 seems too young. Why not tie it to drinking age. There are way too many people who have gotten better at online manipulation in the past few decades.

Had this issue before and having new more advanced ones now. Gotta say one life saver has been Cisco Meraki’s Air Marshall for detecting at least Bluetooth and WiFi interference. Still hard to tell the source - with just a handful of neighbors there are a ton of unidentifiable devices (just MAC addresses) as the internet of things landscape continues to grow.

Someone (actually probably someone commenting on this threads) , with way too much money and time, has been playing catch me if you can. They use a blend of retail analytics, ambient noise and other NLP tuning features of phones and actual visuals I haven’t figured out yet. I had a bug sweeper over to the home, and he basically ran away as fast as he could after realizing I had a sane witness with me - and tons of screen shots.

My question is if someone is actually using advanced satellite surveillance capabilities to augment their running joke by looking in my window, (which can’t be ruled out in my world unfortunately), would one of these devices pick up the RF?

I was supposed to have gone crazy blah blah blah while they tell me what is on my counter in a mobile game.

Sadly, we decided they also are just leveraging the housekeeper and making some good guesses in a few cases. Yet there is one window they kept coming up with what was in front of it. No visible cams in line of sight.

Just the opener is giving me the feels for kids surviving in Ukraine, Palestine, Israel….so many places right now, long roads to recovery need mental health support and science to continue.

Need to talk with this guy. They had the audacity to disable my sister’s privacy takeout so you could not see who was manipulating both her and I. Someone did a real number on her account.

Great writeup. I have only used mine as a fast burner due to extraordinary circumstance- yet my biggest issue by far was simply getting a prepaid card that worked. Lost $200 and about 4 hours of my life trying to sort that out in a hurry. AT&T worked it out.

Triggers a snort rule that usage of a .top domain is an indicator of compromise. May be a false positive. Surprised there are no false positive reports on the primary snort website. Interesting since I did not click this article, yet used the Octal8 client to read ycombinator. Wondering if this is a good link or not. Will check it out later.

There is definitely opportunity for some comparison charts.