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originally posted by: tsctsc
I have a strong impression that everytime we bump on something hot, we are put under some kind of surveillance, and I don't think they want it to be discrete. Actually they want you to know you are being screened, or followed or that your PC is being hacked.
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My own experience tells me that everytime I'm on the track of "something interesting", my internet connection acts bizarre. *snip*
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
originally posted by: tsctsc
I have a strong impression that everytime we bump on something hot, we are put under some kind of surveillance, and I don't think they want it to be discrete. Actually they want you to know you are being screened, or followed or that your PC is being hacked.
*snip*
My own experience tells me that everytime I'm on the track of "something interesting", my internet connection acts bizarre. *snip*
You know, that reminds me of something......
Some years back, I would send a lot of evenings on the computer, and talking to my brother on the cell, since we are both night owls. The topics were always pretty wide-ranging, and most often stuff you'd see discussed here on ATS - conspiracies, cryptozoology, aliens, ghosts, whatever. Not all of the conversation, of course, but a lot. Funny thing, when we'd start on some of those, and not the ones you'd think, the phone had this habit of dropping the call. I could call back, and all would be good, but the drop wold happen regularly, whenever certain topics came up. I don't remember all the specifics, but it wasn't the political stuff, as you might expect, but the more fringe" topics, like Bigfoot and whatnot. Happened too often to be a coincidence. We even joked about listening programs like Carnivore, and how "they" must be messing up when they tapped into the call. You'd even get the sense of someone else on the line, such as (other old timers will remember this) you used to get if someone quietly picked up another extension. Well, we decided enough was enough, and to do something. I'd state out loud, "If you are listening in, please stop making the call drop, because that's annoying, and hey, enjoy the conversation.", and he'd rattle off a long string of words guaranteed to get the attention of a program, if one was in use. When we did that, the calls never, EVER, dropped.
Bizarre, I know, and yes, in the same location as the white truck and other followers. Related? Who knows? I do know that there was government surveillance around there, post-9/11. However, nothing we ever said would have lead to following, so I can't say those things are connected. More likely, the call issue was just some bored surveillance guys that thought we were interesting.