Bells + Whistles : Covid Update

The GizmoGuy neighbour has installed a flashing gadget, in a probable attempt to fool over the 'harmlessness' of his camera intrusions into people's personal domains in the darkness hours of night/early morning, and general jokey antics. Perhaps there is more than one system, such as a general scouting operation followed by a probing light.

I became aware regarding a window of mine directly opposite his. I noticed him watching someone else before that, which I thought at first was a good neighbour scheme. I had pondered some things 3 or 4 years ago, but that was impressions rather than specific issues here.

The actual camera being used in my direction and the timing seem to have changed, and one fine day (or a wet and windy one) I will hope to get it checked out: If someone behaves as though they have a veritable #licencetosnoop, then I have one to #probe the nature+intent. It is the behaviour of this #NFH who acts like Mr Bumble, with a friend who seems much more purposeful and businesslike, that brought the idea of a Franchise operation to mind.

After further events and looking up on Google, I wonder if GizmoBumble has access to technology such as a drone, a satellite, or something using laser lights or sound, combined with things I am not genned up on. What I do fathom is that things which seem to be impossible are not, so other factors may be in play, including his seeming to have foreknowledge as I am almost home. Perhaps he tests stuff on a target population for a fee: Not just an end-of-garden or windowsill Hobby then, as he'd have us believe. A thrill junkie maybe, or linking to other activities? He seems to have upped the ante of late, hence the unmothballing of this Blog in May 2016, and again now 2021.

I am reluctant to cause trouble as it is not really my battle, I can prove nothing, and no doubt he can cover himself. I know how unsettling it is to lose privacy like this, along with any sense of neighbourly support.

Updated for Covid 'N' All, 2021

So much water under-the-bridge that there's no need to bore with detail! Talk of 5G & stuff, whether it's a plot to inject all-&-sundry, fast, with more than just a risky medical procedure supposed to improve our lot in the dilemma. (Know anything about the effects of graphene, or why it might get introduced in vaccines?) Might it be a nefarious design to kill us off one way or many, over time? Could 5G swipe us sideways if we choose vaccination, or will it act more as a personal tracker? See a Blog on Mind Invasive Tech for more.

What then of GizmoGuy? First he took down all his antenna things that bristled in full view. Maybe all the ambient Wi-Fi, Internet Of Things, special doorbells/cams, made those redundant. Second, he got quite friendly. An odd thing while chatting, was when I mentioned something I'd bought. "I saw that" he said. As far as I know, he's never been inside my home. Through-the-wall radar? Also he had lots of visitors, new fancy bright lights blaring my way at any movement. Finally it's gone from open-plan garden & low fencing, (anyone could see through their big window), to bare-bones style, v.high fences obscuring garden/windows, plus a solid gate. As William Shatner says: Weird or What?

I looked into what people were saying about how powerful 5G will be; it seems set to roll out throughout UK, judging by new control boxes sprouting at corners all around. You could look into how to screen your sleeping area and so on, without spending a fortune on unverified methods. Now, if GizmoGuy has long-term, advanced awareness of likely effects of some of this, I'd suggest the changes in his immediate environment and lifestyle, make perfect sense. Whether he is hunkering down so that, under wraps, he keeps others under more surveillance, or to block EMF around his property? I always thought he was a prototype, a forerunner, useful as a scout in return for payment or favours. He does an ordinary job, but is certainly unusually talented, even a charmer.

Windows on my World

Here I invite you to a brief view of my World. Not everyone does - or in fact should have!

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.

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.

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.