Surveillance

In case you haven't heard yet, this is not a free country. It never has been. The American Revolution was a coup de tat. We were more free before the revolution than after. Instead of freedom we got capitalism which is economic slavery. The powers that be spent 200 years inventing BS wars while science came up with an even better prison. That better prison is George Orwell's '1984'. Surveillance, manipulation and cover-up by the media as a means to dispose of the riff raff the rich don't want. The rest of this document describes some of the surveillance and offers some solutions. It begins with a basic description of electricity.

Electricity is part of the science of life. All life forms on this planet generate very small electro-magnetic waves that can be picked up by electronic sensors. A basic understanding of electricity will help to understand the problem. Electricity is the moving of electrons (current) in a conductor (copper wire) by a difference in potential (voltage). Electrons are a basic building block of the atom. The atom is the smallest building block for all matter in the universe. An atom consists of neutrons, protons and electrons. Electrons revolve around the nucleus, or center, and are not bound permanantly to it. They can be made to move from one nucleus to another. Electrons are negatively charged. When a large number of electrons builds up in a small area a difference in potential (voltage) exists. A battery is 'charged' when there is a build-up of electrons.

Electronics could be described as the manipulation of electricity to perform some type of work. There are 3 very basic elements used in electronics that don't require silicon. Resistors, capacitors and inductors. Elements made with silicon are called integrated circuits. Integrated circuits are mostly transistors. Transistors are a kind of switch, an action that cannot be performed by the 3 basic elements. Resistors are devices that limit the flow of current. Capacitors store energy in an electric field and inductors store energy in a magnetic field.

To perform a job or do some type of work the electronics usually convert some physical quantity in the real world to electricity. To do this a transducer is required. There are many types of transducers, some work on pressure others light or temperature. An example would be your TV remote. You push a button and the electronics generates a light signal that gets picked up by the TV and the TV then changes the channel or whatever. An antenna on a radio would be a type of transducer. It picks up electromagnetic radiation and the electronics convert it to sound.

When current flows in a conductor it generates electromagnetic waves, sometimes called 'eddy currents'. Electromagnetic waves are the science behind radio and synthetic telepathy. Synthetic telepathy is one of the major problems associated with todays society. With todays advanced electronics even the minute radiation of the human brain can be picked up by transducers and interpreted with electronics. This is the science behind George Orwell's thought police.

Aside from the known ways to ease drop on someone, microphones, cameras etc, there are at least three new techniques used to oppress people they don't tell anyone about. Synthetic telepathy, the microwave hearing effect and neural implants. Synthetic telepathy, as mentioned above, is the ability to read a person's mind by picking up the tiny electromagnetic signals produced by the brain and interpreting them with electronics. The microwave hearing effect was discovered during WWII by radar operators when they experienced a clicking noise in the ears when near the equipment. It can be used to put voices in someones ear and drive them crazy. It's like a telephone system thats both completely wireless and has no phones. It's sometimes called 'electronic brain link'. Microwaves are radiated from cell phone towers and the towers are everywhere all across the country. They sell people phones, but they're not really needed anymore. The development of neural implants can be traced to the CIA's MK-Ultra mind control program that began in the 1950's. The CIA's Dr Jose Manual DelGado designed the 'Stimoceiver' and demonstrated it in a bull ring in Spain. There are videos of this on youtube.com.

A possible way to defeat the sensors that pick up the emissions of the human brain would be to generate a lot of garbage electro-magnetic waves around the people and make it difficult for the sensors to pick up the EMI given off by the people. The people would have to always remain near the generator. The generator would need to generate a higher power level than a human which is not difficult given the tiny voltages of the brain.

Specific Ideas
1. Spark Generators
Spark generators were one of the first Morse Code machines. They were invented by Nikola Tesla before the end of the 19th century. The Titanic carried a spark radio. As radio progressed they were outlawed because they interfered with the entire radio spectrum. A Jacobs Ladder is a type of spark generator. At high voltages they can interupt everything. I mounted a standard spark plug from an internal combustion engine in a piece of metal to simulate an engine. To create the spark I used a standard ignition coil with a Velleman kit. The Velleman kit (K2543) comes with everything needed, but it has to be assembled. 2. Mechanical Generators
Electric motors are notorious for generating noise that interfere with sensitive electronics. All motors have a rotor that must move and be energized at the same time. This is accomplished with a conducting brush that keeps contact with the rotor. The idea is to rotate a metal brush on metal and conduct electricity through it to create noise. Then amplify the noise and put it on an antenna. 3. Electronic Generator
I began experimenting with Texas Instruments MSP430 line of microcontrollers. The Launchpad comes preprogrammed with a software routine that pulses an LED. I theorize you could simply take that pulse, amplify it and put it on an antenna and it might create enough disturbance for one person. It could be made small enough to hang around a person's neck. The MSP could also be programmed to generate random digital signals out of almost any output. You could generate many random signals mix them together and create digital noise. The outputs could be programmed for different frequencies. Another electronic idea is to build a white noise generator, chop up the signal somehow and amplify that. Different metals have different conducting properties. It might be possible to make your own componant to chop up signals by passing the current through different metals. You could pass the signal through a piece of pig iron and see if it makes a lot of noise.
4. It might be possible to record the noise made by a spark transmitter, make a computer file out of it, then rebroadcast (transmit) it through a cell phone or iPod. It's effectiveness might be limited to the microwave spectrum because of the size of the antenna.

The picture above is a spark generator I built. It consists of a standard spark plug and an ignition coil. I mounted the plug in a piece of metal. I have a Velleman Kit (K2543) to create the spark.

The above picture is a representation of a homemade componant for creating noise. It could be inserted into a PCB. The idea is to pass a signal through different metals to chop up the signal. Some metals might not take solder so a mechanical connection would be made.

Noise generators prevent signals from being picked up. They could also prevent transmitting. But it might be useful to use the radio spectrum so jamming is more appropriate. Jamming is the act of disabling only selected frequencies. The radio spectrum goes from 0 HZ to 300 GHZ. It's divided up into hundreds of channels for different uses. There are dozens of ways to modulate (carry data) so jamming is a science in itself. Jamming is a topic beyond my abilities.

The microwave spectrum is from 300MHZ to 300GHZ. Anything above 300GHZ is light. Microwaves can be transmitted with very small antennas. An entire radio, including the antenna, can fit on a single integrated circuit the size of a fingernail. Bluetooth is a technology that allows Personal Area Networks using microwaves. You can transmit and recieve signals up to 150 ft away.

Neural implants probably operate on microwaves given the small size. Getting an implant out of someone is tricky. You would have to stop the implant from communicating, get them to a facility that is fully protected from surveillance and they might have to stay there a while. EMI shielding could help cut off communication. They make EMI absorbant material that looks something like a SCUBA diving wet suit. A person could be covered from head to toe with this and brought to a facility that is a faraday cage. A faraday cage is an entire building encased in copper and grounded to earth. This would be a faraday cage walking into a faraday cage.

A faraday cage is an enclosure, room or entire building (like the NSA building at Ft Meade), encased in metal and then grounded to earth. It prevents electromagnetic waves from entering or leaving. The earth is an electrically neutral body. Any voltage, whether plus or minus, will discharge a current if given a path to earth. You cannot develop a voltage across neutral. Neutral is neutral. So if an entire building is a piece of metal and connected to earth all radiated electromagnetic waves will discharge to ground. Turning every building in the country into a faraday cage isn't practical but some steps can be taken. It is possible to purchase enough aluminum flashing to cover the floor of the attic for about $600. You could lay down the aluminum and then put some 1/4 inch plywood on top. It wouldn't add too much weight and the attic is still usable. There are thousands of corragated metal industrial buildings in this country that could be easily converted into a faraday cage.

A faraday cage can protect from radiated intrusion, both transmitted and recieved, but it doesn't help with conducted surviellance. Any wire entering or leaving a building and connected to a utility (electric, cable, phone) is a highway for someone to snoop. Any house has thousands of feet of wire. A large building has miles and it can all be used for transfering data. Broadband Over Powerlines (BPL) is a technology that uses the AC wiring in a building for delivering the same data as the coax cable. Telephone wiring could also be used without a person's knowledge. It used to be that when a device was off it was off. But now almost everything plugged in is drawing current even when not in use. I used to think this was done just to pad the electric bill but it may also have a more sinister purpose. Anything plugged into a wall outlet in your house could be snooping. The wiring itself could be a problem. As a rule the bigger the antenna, the more sensitive it is. So the wiring in your house could be a very sensitive antenna capable of picking up your personal emissions. There are at least 2 ways to defeat some of these problems. Filtering and injecting noise onto the wires.

Electronic manufacturers make filters for all kinds of applications. They can be used to defeat some of the problems. An understanding of what they are originally designed for is necessary to use them and I will try to boil it down to a few sentences. Most of them are designed to remove unwanted noise from lines and equipment so that it runs properly and meets FCC standards. Noise is catagorized as common-mode or differential-mode. Common-mode is defined as any signal that can be measured from hot to earth ground or neutral to earth ground. You cannot develop a voltage at earth ground since it is zero at all times. But both the hot lead and the neutral lead can vary above or below. The longer the run of wire the more likely it will pick up some type of unwanted signal (noise). Common-mode could also be described as any voltage picked up as radiation from an outside source. Differential-mode is noise from an actual device. Filtering for both is necessary but differential is more important since we are trying to stop the devices from communicating. Common-mode 'data' would be a problem if there were two long runs of wire and one had data but was filtered and was very close to a wire that is not filtered and that wire was 'picking' it up as radiated. This is less likely but possible. Filtering for differential-mode is in fact 'in-circuit' and is what we are actually trying to do.

There are two basic types of filters, active and passive. Active filters use componants like op-amps and transistors and some require a power source for those componants. Passive filters use only resistors, capacitors and inductors. These componants don't need a separate power supply but act upon the voltage itself as if it were part of the circuit. Other distinctions are they can be designed for AC or DC applications or high voltage or low voltage. I spent a lot of time reading a TE Connectivity (Corcom) catalog trying to understand the various types. One thing I discovered is that any filter used for medical applications only is usually only for differential-mode. In-circuit. There must be something in building codes or the National Electric code or in the way they build medical facilities that eliminates the need for common-mode filters. Some medical filters have common-mode componants but very few. If a manufacturer doesn't specifically say a device is for differential-mode you can tell by looking at the schematic. If the componants connect from hot to neutral it is for differential-mode. If they connect from hot or neutral to earth ground it is for common-mode.

Advanced electronics like DVD players, radios etc are a bigger problem because they have advanced IC's. There are two types of these that could have two solutions. Some of these devices have a plug that goes right into the wall and others have a small DC power supply or AC step down transformer that can be separated from the actual device. The former requires the filtering of the AC at the plug and the latter can be filtered between the device and separate power supply. With the separate power supply lower voltage AC or DC filters can be inserted before the device. Manufacturers make pre-assembled low voltage DC filters that can go between.

A spectrum analyser is a device that is useful for both detecting the problem and troubleshooting your solution. It displays a 2 dimensional graph of all frequencies in a domain. A domain is where the measurement is taken, wireless or conducted, radiated or additive. Spectrum analysers use to be very expensive and a separate piece of equipment. Since the advance of digital electronics even the cheapest oscilloscope comes with some sort of spectrum capability. They can analyse both radiated (wireless) energy and conducted (in-circuit). Placing oscilloscope probes into live AC circuits is dangerous for both the operator and the equipment and I don't recommend it. I recently purchased an Extech AC line separator that goes between an AC outlet and a piece of equipment so measurements can be taken with a clamp meter and no live wires are involved. There is also a clamp scope probe by Hantek. Hantek CC650 AC/DC current clamp. I recommend this instead of inserting anything into live AC circuits. Wi-Spy is a stand alone wireless spectrum analyser.

To inject noise onto the wiring you could use X10 technology. X10 technology was developed in the 1980's. It uses the AC wiring inside your home as a way to send data. X10 can be purchased from a website called smarthome.com. I purchased a controller and took it apart to see how it works. See picture above. The controller sends data over the AC wiring to individual plug-in units that turn on or turn off a device when they recieve the signal from the controller. Each plug-in device has a code that is programmed by two rotary switch's. Each plug-in device can go into any outlet and turn on or off whatever is pluged into it. The controller itself is a feedback loop. It plugs into any outlet. The AC goes through a small in-house device, then to a transformer to step down the 120 volts. The stepped down voltage goes to the PCB that has the control circuitry. The control circuitry then outputs back into the in-house device and back onto the AC wiring. I think you could replace the control circuitry with some sort of noise generator and render useless all the AC wiring in your home.

The telephone wiring could also be a problem whether your phone service is provided by a telephone company or the cable company. Our phones go through the coax cable. The best that can be hoped for is to stop high speed data. The human voice goes between 200 HZ and about 30 KHZ, so you can filter out everything above that. It doesn't stop all snooping but it could slow it down. The above picture is of a Westek Z 100 telephone filter. It is placed in series in one telephone extension line. If you have 5 extensions, you would need five filters. It will not handle the wattage of all 5 at once. This filter is advertised as removing everything up to 200 MHZ.

The coax cable is also a potential problem but it makes no sense to try to filter high speed data since thats what its designed for. You could shut it off completely when not in use but disconnecting the BNC everytime will take its toll on the connector. The picture above is an High Isolation A B Switch. You could connect the input to it, then the output to either A or B then leave the other unused. When you want it disconnected you throw the switch. My house uses the coax cable for the TV telephone and internet. If I put one in the main feed I could shut off everything with one switch. To better manage all the wires it is advisable to organize and locate everything in one place. I have spent nearly a year doing this to my house. See picture below.

This is an idea for helping a lot of people with implants all at once. The picture below is a device I made to help protect my Software Designed Radio from being destroyed with too much signal applied to the antenna. The device mounted on the right is a surge suppressor that can be bought from a number of manufacturers. This one is from MFJ. It is designed to short all current to earth ground if it exceeds the rating on the suppressor thus preventing damage to the radio. The idea is to make some sort of portable device that outputs a massive spike that would be large enough to blow a microwave (Bluetooth) antenna. You could just ride around in a car in a heavily populated area blowing it off leaving disconnected people behind.