Comment by _8j50 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by _8j50 | Hacker News Reader

I've spoken to people like this before. It isn't pure mental illness, the one person I spoke to the most a few years I ago, I am convinced a few assholes stalked/RATed her and that led to all kinds of paranoia and eventually to delusions and what you would call "mental illness".

I have first hand experienced some of this as well but I knew the individuals and their intentions and I learned to tolerate it as a temporary thing and move on with life. It really really messes with your head when you incidentally and actually find a RAT, for non-technical people they have no idea what that is, they just know somehow their most secret moments are known to strangers.

For those unaware, there communities of "underground" creeps that RAT people (usually women though) and share this shit between each other. I'd imagine these are also the same peope that are into gore and other messed up stuff?

In short, other disturbed people sometimes (but not always) cause people to think they are victims of gang stalking and sometimes they are not wrong.

What is RAT?

Remote Access Trojan - malware which, usually as software, needs to make its way to the victim computer.

Hypothesis: the people responsible for the electronic harassment of "targeted individuals" use a variant of RAT done in hardware with its own radio and working even without Internet, inserted during processor design, making harder to uncover it, but it can be done.

Consider:

"It's not technically hard to make a device that complies with the FCC that listens to nonpublic bands but then is quietly waiting for some activation trigger to listen to other bands," said Eduardo Rojas, who leads the radio spectrum lab at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. "Technically, it's feasible."

To prove a device had clandestine capabilities, Rojas said, would require technical experts to strip down a device "to the semi-conductor level" and "reverse engineer the design." But, he said, it can be done.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/politics/fbi-investigation-hu...

If present, such implants could be detected with a radio-frequency meter that is logging all measurements 7x24, with post-collection filtering of RF noise on public licensed and unlicensed bands.

If present, such a receiver/transmitter would have needed to co-exist with changes in public cellular radio bands, e.g. the transition from 2G to 3G to 4G LTE over the past twenty years.

Unlikely to be caught if the measuring instruments themselves are compromised and made to fake data related to that - just like our eyes have blind spots and the brain does some faking.

The effects of sabotage can't be faked - people only need to listen to the victims, because waiting until they themselves are victimized is a losing proposition.

If consumer-level RF meters were sabotaged to ignore specific bands, expensive professional-level SDRs would be less likely to have the same blind spots, if only because they are used in a wide range of applications by professionals who also have reference equipment for calibration of questionable meters.

If consumer-level RF meters were sabotaged to ignore specific bands, professional-level SDRs could be used to identify those bands. That may be faster and less work than detecting any hypothetical implants, and would itself be a significant discovery of interest to the global engineering community.

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