LABRATS - A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO YOUR LOSS OF PRIVACY..
(begun Tuesday 29th March at 1.55pm..)
When two or three attempts at clicking on the Timeslive site's subscription complaints link caused the page to crash each time, I sent them a mail instead...
I guess if I don't get a response, automated or otherwise, it'll be a pretty good indication that my Area Controller/Network Admin is doing rather more than sitting on his hands, watching me... *winks..
Instead, Jolene (waves), from the Time's Durban Office called the GW again at midday, to say that the system was still down, and she would have our daily Times delivered instead by the Daily News delivery bloke, for the next three days... *blinks..
But our Sunday Times was delivered as usual, protested the bewildered GW.. Ah - the error is only affecting the daily paper, she said hastily.. Right...
Fraid I must cry foul here... The system down for 2 to 3 weeks? Why then no whines to that effect on the Letters pages? Oldies are the first to bitch and moan when there's a glitch to the system, and I've seen nothing at all... *winks...
The GW's assertion that the Timeslive contact links don't support Firefox is surely stretching it beyond credibility? *interested.... If I were to go to the Sunday Tribune site (assuming there is one), and attempt to click on their contact links, what are the chances of that page crashing as well? Pretty good, I guess.. *cackles...
Man, but it appears that Captain Courageous is going to extreme lengths to silence someone that the Fine Pair have insisted all along does nothing but lie?
LATER at 3.30pm
I lurched back into the Killing Fields at durbanite.co.za this morning, and found young Mac MacCarthy was back with a vengeance..*roffels.. A geek on steroids? How the heck do his Staff cope with his temper? I was amused to find he'd been in real Hit and Run mode, and had had a go at both David Ludlow and the whistle-blower, as well as his initial frothing rant cast in my direction....
Did he realise almost immediately that he'd overdone it, and then gone on to do a blog post? A post that will have had many like me tutting in sympathy, and agreeing whole-heartedly with him? *shrieks with mirth...
The object of young Mac's endeavours, for the uninitiated, is to roar so loudly and repeatedly about the corruption at City Hall, so as to distract you from the enormous surveillance blanket that's being dropped over the entire country, you included... *grins..
Hell, I wouldn't know what label the Authors have given their baby, but I refer to it variously as the Project/The Information Theft Scheme, or Big Brother....
It probably breaks every Human Rights law in the book, and therefore it's imperative that Trolls be sent in to Forums to do Damage Control in whatever form they're best at... *twinkles revoltingly at Mac... Retard that I surely am, you must know that your scent is carried ahead of you on the wind... Not that it matters, as it's the older, not so IT friendly members you wish to impress, is it not? *teeth...
Was Rick Crouch delighted when you hijacked his thread to have a go at David Ludlow? Is he aware of the reason for your deployment at durbanite? Is he fully in the picture, and aware that his own residence now probably carries the option to put his family conversations onto audio-monitoring, remotely?
You're squealing like a stuck pig out there Mac, and determined as you are to keep the Project's most prized secret, just that, I am equally determined to level the playing field...
IMHO everyone should be made aware of this wondrous advance in technology.. EVERYONE... Tapping your fixed line and cellphones, and having your computer taken over and monitored, is child's play compared to the audio monitoring in your homes and businesses... It's the single reason behind the creation of the Wireless User Groups or WUGs... The more WUG members in a suburb, the stronger the wireless signal becomes, and the more it enhances your private conversations, relayed to, and monitored, by the nearest Area Controller...
What's an Area Controller? I very much doubt that SITA could improve on my definition, so here goes...
Anywhere between 18 and 50, Area Controllers are generally spotted on Local Internet Forums, and are studied long and hard, before they're finally approached on the quiet and offered a job...
A preference will be given to hackers and Crackers who have demonstrated their skills online, and who display a singular lack of honesty and integrity... Who in fact, never had a moral compass to lose.. *grins..
I couldn't be further from the truth in YOUR case? Bedaar jou meneertjie, I know there have to be some of you out there who cling to some sort of idealistic concept of this glorious project, and who wouldn't consider torturing the charges they monitor and control...
I can only speak for the few slugs I've met, and by golly they are awesome! *vomits freely..
Where was I? Ah, yes... The fellows termed Area Controllers, that are handed control of YOUR power circuit, by means of a niftily designed computer program.. For more details on the technology, I suggest you contact The Superintendent of Electricity for Durban, the red-eyed Allen Spence.. Try offering him a Knighthood if he declines to answer your questions, for it appears he's partial to a title or two... *winks... If you want his cell number, let me know...
Back to business.... Area Controllers may favour either the Ruling Party or the DA, and in our case he works for both... Colin P. Balliram, resident cracker at No. 6 Harris Crescent, Sherwood.. A fine fellow, who I doubt has ever done an honest day's work in his life... *waves..
Closely associated to the only Druglord that ever counted here in the Zone, one Michael Barnabas of Randles Road, Sydenham, our Balliram was hired privately as IT Security Consultant to the then Head of Sydenham Station, Glen Nayager to assist him in managing the Information Theft Project throughout the Zone...
I've two files of Press cuttings on Nayager the Felon... A chap who adores the spotlight, even when it plainly reveals him to be a criminal of the first order... Are you keeping up there? Let's take a break for a bit....
Wednesday 30th March at 3.40am...
The break turned into an evening sitting in front of the telly.. We'd turned over channels to watch the latest advertised episodes of Come Dine With Me, and they'd vanished without trace! Hau! I guess the GW mis-read the programming? *winks.. Anyway, I got lucky and picked up a great little movie on 105 instead.. *beams...
Earlier on, yesterday evening, I'd booted up and gone as usual to mybroadband where I'd browsed for a bit, when suddenly the desk fan audibly slowed down, at the same time as the lamp dipped alarmingly.. Within minutes I heard a far away rumble of thunder, and I shut everything down chop-chop... Better safe, right? As the dip didn't affect the wall lights or the telly, but the only two items on the jack behind the sofa, it obviously had nothing to do with any electrical storm in the vicinity, and more to do with my Controller hopping into our lounge to join us..
*Okay - Now it's 4.10am and I've put the dog's livers and rice on to cook.. I'm adding a tray of chicken necks for the first time, as they were just over R2, and apparently something that bigger dogs really enjoy*
So if you were say a Councillor, unskilled in IT, but dedicated to making a difference, I guess you'd have gone on a couple of IT courses at least, and by now you have the basics of how to switch on your laptop and navigate about? You may even have been told about the Muni's Networks, and the Project, and, depending which Party you support, you'll have been told that the DA have hijacked the technology and are using it to expose the corruption in the Ruling Party... Yay? *sighs...
Any unease you may initially have felt about the laws of privacy being broken, will have been swept aside, as necessary to nail the Trough-Feeders... *beams...
What your confidante omitted to tell you, was that both major parties have been given equal control of the technology, and that if you happen to be a dedicated and out-spoken Councillor, chances are you've already forfeited YOUR right to privacy... Again - I'm not talking the usual phone-tapping and monitoring of your computers, but your home, both inside and out...
If you consider you just might be a thorn in anyone's side, then it's time to sit up and pay attention.. Do your houselights dip of an evening, when you're having a quiet chat to the Missus? Just one little dip is all it takes for the Area Controller nearest you, to hop right on in to your home, and listen to your conversations...
It may be that you've made an enemy in your own Party, and they have arranged to have the VOICE option activated in the hopes of you uttering something at odds with your public persona... A casual remark that will be fallen on with glee, and tucked into your Leverage File to be used to lean on you if need be, further down the line...
Am I getting through to you at all? Are you starting to grasp the huge implications of what it is you're supporting so avidly? That your casual conversations, made openly and freely in the privacy of your home, can now lead to your ultimate downfall, and put an end to your career?
Were you told of this amazing technological advance? Are you aware that when your home is invaded via the powerlines, your Area Controller will be using unregulated frequencies and power, in order to enhance his/her audio eavesdropping? That in itself is, as I've discovered to my cost, detrimental to your health, never mind anything else...?
Mac's cleverly written blog post on durbanite has elicited a flurry of replies, though I've not yet been in to read them... I'm guessing that every response will be in support of his cunning rant, and I love the ambiguous note that he ended on.. He won't be around much longer?
Has Helen poached him to head down to the WP and set up a LAN in some as yet unwired suburb? Has he been persuaded to head up to Agliotti's territory in Gauteng, to manage a Wireless User Group for the Opposition? We can be comfortable knowing the Mr. MacCarthy is working for the Good Team? *falls over laughing...
As one of Stucliffe's Labrats, handed to a Druglord, for his pet IT Monkey/Area Controller to torture at will, you'll pardon me if I see little to choose between the Good and the Corrupt that have been given equal control over our lives.. *snorts..
Peace..
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Wednesday 30th March 2011 at 10.27am.
