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INDEX	Tuesday October 12, 2021
The (electronic) magic of the dark side
A while ago I posted on the subject of morphic resonance, or a sort of electronic version of this highly questionable biological communication phenomena. Unlike the biological system, the electronic system really works, or so said my old friend Keith Williams. I have lately discovered that in the 1950s MI5's technical department was working on a system called 'CABMAN'. "It was designed to activate a telephone without even entering the premises by radiating the telephone with a powerful radio beam," according to Peter Wright, former assistant director of MI5 writing in his book Spycatcher (on page 47). Younger readers (if there are any) may not realise that telephones (what we now called landlines) only operated by cables. Radio waves had no impact on them, or they were not supposed to have any impact on them. There was certainly no mechanism that enabled radio signal to activate or control them. MI5 was interested in phones at the time because the legal framework they operated under (some of the time they did anyway, at other times they behaved just like a cowboy outfit or a criminal gang) meant that they were only supposed to record conversations in a target room if they could extract the signal via a telephone line. Scroll forward more than 60 years and my guess is the technology has improved quite a lot. For example, in my house I gave up using a radio controlled door bell because it would ring at all times of the day or night, despite the fact that no-one was there. It's true other radio signals can set off these devices, but not as often as this one was ringing. When I connected my dvd player to the internet it would not work. It stopped or went haywire. Now it could have been hacked, but I doubt it. The flat screen I have has the ability to record programmes but every time I do this, the recording ends a couple of minutes before the conclusion of the programme. Now maybe someone has got a remote control device that re-tunes the flat screen but I doubt it. Perhaps there's something wrong with the electronics? Who knows. I bought three wildlife video cameras to record the foxes in my garden. Every one of them stopped working. Maybe they were just cheap and poorly made? Most interestingly of all I got some photo negative digitisers (devices designed to copy old photo negatives) and when I put them close to a digital radio, the radio went haywire. Could someone have been beaming a strong radio signal at my digitisers aiming to stop them from working? In fact I do not have a single item of electronic equipment that works flawlessly. It never happens. Yet it can't be me. How do you operate a radio controlled door bell incompetently? The truth is, of course, that this criminal and illegal activity fits into a pattern of harassment, and strangely MI5 admits it does harass targets.
Tuesday October 12, 2021		INDEX