For some time, someone has had at least one of my windows under visual surveillance: The likelihood is that other people's homes are in their sights, mainly at night. I don't know if they pick up some audio. This Peeking Tom is a regular GizmoGuy, whose partner revels in the window dressing, hence a Peeking Team. If I am right about the basics, it is an unwarranted intrusion into what I was under the impression was private space. It changes a great deal if it is not.
It coincides with recent publicity over hacking of personal or financial data. We are asked for our date of birth to pay a utility bill by phone, to provide all our financial info when seeking advice on a simple matter (then stored online for other firms to access). Our medical and dental data have gone to electronic storage: Where, shared where? People clever enough to handle complex databases and websites are meant to keep our data secure from accidental or deliberate blips. But is that even possible? It begins to look as though privacy has become a thing of the past.
It coincides with recent publicity over hacking of personal or financial data. We are asked for our date of birth to pay a utility bill by phone, to provide all our financial info when seeking advice on a simple matter (then stored online for other firms to access). Our medical and dental data have gone to electronic storage: Where, shared where? People clever enough to handle complex databases and websites are meant to keep our data secure from accidental or deliberate blips. But is that even possible? It begins to look as though privacy has become a thing of the past.
My guess is GizmoGuy at the rear would claim my predicament is overspill from his home security. It has been intrusive, entering via net curtains or a gap in curtains, and pulsing a light across walls and ceiling, a little high up to be looking for intruders through a single-storey estate, would you think? Most of the gizmos or antics
are designed to look innocent or as something else altogether. I am not dealing here with physical entry into a building or bug-placing inside or on outside walls (I think!). This is about what can be done to unsuspecting persons by someone using it as a form of Sport, or leverage.
It seems to be mapping shapes, or seeking differences in light and shadow, and movement or contrast may set part of it off. As we enter November 2015 further possibilities occur. When I first sought advice, I asked if anyone could access my windows by bouncing light off a wall or window of a neighbouring building, or even a chimney or TV dish. I was told it would have to be line-of-sight. I am not so sure.
An alternative scenario could be as a group with similar interests, i.e. consensual. Or it might be coercive such as: 'I know things about you and can in fact see them. If you include your gadgets in the resource pool to snoop on neighbours, you can sometimes turn off surveillance on you.'
GizmoGuy has a way with things, and my bet is he excels in Trigonometry or angles. By shining a light at thin curtains or a small chink around, he might get an image inside one's room via a highly reflective surface. Remember that even shiny curtains facing outward can be translucent unless backed by something thicker, if there's a strong light source outside, or from inside your room with a light or TV on.
More speculative is whether RF radio frequencies, or illegal hacking software is being used against residents' homes, their security systems or baby monitors, their webcams and gadgets. Now that is more serious.
Picture a residential site with bright street lamps, plus a guy with 2 strong security lights facing your way. He may persuade people opposite your other windows to have their lights on, or to accommodate a camera on their shed. Indeed. Where you like your brass ornaments or shiny fittings and choose your technogadgets with care, snoopers think of other uses for them.
If I give more clues about the nature of the place and surrounds, you might realise where it is. The purpose of this is to be general, and to urge you to take care of your own or your family's privacy, whether pottering round at home or engaging on the Web.
An alternative scenario could be as a group with similar interests, i.e. consensual. Or it might be coercive such as: 'I know things about you and can in fact see them. If you include your gadgets in the resource pool to snoop on neighbours, you can sometimes turn off surveillance on you.'
GizmoGuy has a way with things, and my bet is he excels in Trigonometry or angles. By shining a light at thin curtains or a small chink around, he might get an image inside one's room via a highly reflective surface. Remember that even shiny curtains facing outward can be translucent unless backed by something thicker, if there's a strong light source outside, or from inside your room with a light or TV on.
More speculative is whether RF radio frequencies, or illegal hacking software is being used against residents' homes, their security systems or baby monitors, their webcams and gadgets. Now that is more serious.
Picture a residential site with bright street lamps, plus a guy with 2 strong security lights facing your way. He may persuade people opposite your other windows to have their lights on, or to accommodate a camera on their shed. Indeed. Where you like your brass ornaments or shiny fittings and choose your technogadgets with care, snoopers think of other uses for them.
If I give more clues about the nature of the place and surrounds, you might realise where it is. The purpose of this is to be general, and to urge you to take care of your own or your family's privacy, whether pottering round at home or engaging on the Web.
If something like this is happening to you, even though parts are different, you are not the only one facing the effects of other people's dubious actions, plus of course Technology.
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