This is the perspective of a person who claims to be targeted in many ways, including interference with computers and the internet. From this
perspective there seem to be many vulnerabilities not getting attention. The following describes what is experienced as constant interference for 20
odd years now, and using methods most technicians do not seem to understand.
Interference with use of computers and the internet.
I started using computers in 1985 and then the internet in 1989. I have always had considerably more problems than anyone else I know: with hardware,
operating systems, just about all software, wireless signals, email and when I have been able to access the internet - with browsers, webmail, and
other on line accounts, groups and forums. It is way beyond being explainable as faulty equipment, bad luck, or incompetence. I have confirmed this by
seeing that the same sorts of things happen when I use public computers.
Home computers stuffed
Four times now I have set up a home office and it never lasts for more than a couple of months. The last time I had all new equipment and the latest
regularly updated software - Norton Internet security, a Keylogger Detector and an Intrusion Detection System. The setup worked perfectly for one
week, but then many operating system problems started happening. When I kept trying to sort that out hardware problems started happening. I now have
four computers, all bought new, that won't even turn on. This of course could just be me attempting to do things beyond my ability. However, when I
took one of those computers to a technician and he pressed the same ON button it started up normally and he checked it out thoroughly finding nothing
wrong with it. When I got it home it worked properly twice and then resumed not turning on. A similar thing happened to a UPS unit, which is the
first thing to fix in my 5th attempt to set up a home office. It was not switching on. I took it to a technician who explained to me that it has a
relay which senses when 240v is connected and then starts it up. For me the relay does not do its job, but for him it behaves normally without him
doing anything other than connecting the power. He did use another power cord, but mine checks out as working for other 240v equipment connected to
the same power supply.
Difficulties working on public computers
As a result of the above voluntary work, activism and attempting to run a small business has had to be done in limited time at State libraries,
internet cafes and an employment agency, and more recently on an already not fully functioning smart phone. Most of the public computers have well set
up systems watched over by IT professionals. Most users at these places do not have difficulties during their internet sessions, except of course the
beginners. However, nearly all of the problems I have experienced on my home computers have been replicated on these public computers.
- Computers have crashed at significant moments. Registering a business online proved impossible. I tried several times and the form process would
never complete. When I kept persevering the computer crashed twice needing a reboot and then a third time it wouldn't reboot. This was at a tertiary
education institution library with many people busily working beside me on computers all working well it seemed.
- Operating systems sometimes have seized up necessitating a re-boot.
- Sound often does not work properly. Muting keeps getting un-muted and volume can't be turned down and things start playing that should not.
- Word processing sometimes becomes difficult or even impossible. There have been a few weird effects. One is a delay in the time between typing and
the letters appearing on the screen - up to about three seconds at times. Another is glitches in content appearing e.g. always don 't with a hard
space that can 't be removed.
- Saving work is sometimes difficult. The program will say saved but then, when I go back to that document later, I find it has reverted to a previous
save. That has happened repeatedly in some documents. Recently I checked the date on a document that reverted to an earlier state. I definitely worked
on it on the 24th but the files save date had reverted to the 22nd. One answer to that problem is to continually save the work under a changed file
name, making way too many files, or work in a secure online account. I have had similar mysterious things happen to content in some online
accounts.
- Web pages often open very slowly or not at all. The page loading icon will spin for 20 mins or more. Sometimes leaving that browser window trying
and then putting the same url into another it will open immediately, Other times it will also spin endlessly. Sometimes they will work normally for a
while then start going slow, or the browser might even freeze completely and need to be re-loaded. Other times the browser windows will endlessly
replicate. And another one is web sites that loop back to the home page when attempting to go to the third level page.
- Access to online accounts is sometimes blocked. Passwords do not work. Obviously a person can get the p.w. wrong the first time, but doing it more
carefully the second time, and then again a third time, to be fully sure, and it still does not work seems more like blocked than incompetence. Often
going through the p.w. reset procedure gets me into the account. It just wastes precious time. Sometimes not though. Now with two step verification
on accounts there are added problems. Codes sent by txt to mobile sometimes don't arrive or arrive days late, or not at all. Printed out codes have
many times failed to work. On one occasion I was blocked from accessing my online accounts, where nearly all my work is now, for 15 days.
- Saving on Web Forms many times has not worked. Or the captcha code is not accepted. That has sometimes fully prevented me from setting up online
services.
- Webmail services have proven very difficult to use: Zoho is the best that I have had. It is my 12th. All the others have not functioned as they
should. I have talked to many of their techs who have not been able to explain why things have been seizing up, or not loading, or otherwise
malfunctioning. My 11th Webmail service was gmail, with encrypted connection to the computer I am using turned on. Mostly it worked but was very
annoying in that whenever I attempted to open an email from one source, which just happened to be doing something to expose covert targeting of
innocent people. Instead of the email from this group opening the account would nearly always log out. Others were also complaining of that happening
in Google support forums, but there were not enough it seems to get Google's attention on the problem, or maybe they just didn't know why that sort of
thing was happening - like all the other Webmail services. Zoho is the first that has almost worked properly so far. A disappearing email has still
happen though, but of course they have no control over what happens to an email once it leaves their system.
edit on 27-8-2015 by Jed Stuart because: forgot a bit