by Sharon Rondeau
(Feb. 18, 2025) – Recently a citizen approached The Post & Email to relate a tortuous, five-year ordeal which has risen to the level of interfering with his everyday life, employment and ability to communicate over the internet.
The surveillance began in 2019, the citizen recounted in an interview last week, while he resided in Hawaii, where slightly over a year before, another Hawaii resident reported very similar occurrences. After moving from one location to another within that state, harassment and cyber-interference continued, he said. A move to California did not change the offenders’ pattern, he detailed in numerous emails sent to law enforcement, copied to this writer.
The “gangstalking” activity, sometimes called “organized stalking,” renders him virtually unable to use his computer and has extended to his ability to access his work schedule posted online each week, he told us. When attempting to find even the most mundane information, he said, his computer is besieged by an “alert” accompanied by a red exclamation mark followed by the message, “attackers are stealing your data.”
Another form of intimidation includes the simultaneous honking of multiple automobile horns upon his emerging from his home, he said, similar to a 2014 report aired by ABC News. While the video from the interview would not load for this writer, a synopsis of the story appears here.
Along with coordinated horn-blowing are crank phone calls, the victim said, as well as leaf-blowers which he said “are ALWAYS used early in the morning, and can be heard from numerous homes surrounding” his own.
Resources and Remedies
As The Post & Email researched the issue, it found victims of such activity, which many believe is driven by the federal government, are referred to as “targeted individuals.” A plethora of resources, commentary and support groups formed to delve into and expose the issue offers suggestions on how to manage the problem, though solutions appear to be few.
https://targetedindividualsresources.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/477193365693899
According to gangstalkingcoach.com, which also offers for-fee “support” services to victims:
The ultimate goal of gang stalkers is to isolate and control the target, by attempting to push them to emotional or mental crises. Gang stalking serves multiple purposes, including destabilizing the individual socially, financially and cutting them off from their support network, whether family, friends, or the workplace. This is often done with false or made-up investigations to attempt to ruin the reputation of the intended target. These events are aimed to create a controlled environment where the individual feels monitored and unable to find refuge.
Of possible remedies for the problem, legalclarity.org states:
Federal legal protections can also be leveraged in gang stalking cases. The Interstate Stalking Punishment and Prevention Act, codified under 18 U.S.C. 2261A, criminalizes stalking across state lines. This law is particularly relevant when perpetrators operate in multiple states or when victims are forced to relocate due to harassment. Penalties under this statute include fines and imprisonment, with enhanced sentences for cases involving bodily injury or protective order violations.
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) also addresses stalking and provides resources for victims. VAWA funds programs offering legal assistance, counseling, and emergency housing, enhancing victims’ safety and well-being.
Victims may consider filing a complaint with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) if gang stalking involves organized crime or federal law violations. The FBI has the authority to investigate such cases, providing additional protection and recourse.
In 2019, a case which came to be known as the “eBay stalking scandal” resulted in the conviction of seven eBay employees, most of them company managers and directors. A civil case in the matter will receive an initial hearing on March 3, Wikipedia reports, sourced to CBS News.
According to Cathy Meadows, M.S., Clinical Psychology, author of the book, “Surviving and Thriving as a Targeted Individual,” “Your stalkers are out of control, obviously, but you must not follow suit. You can and should remain in control of your behavior and be an example to them and to others by maintaining an upstanding, fearless, and open persona. They may be living in the darkness of secrecy and fear but you must remain in the light. There you will find health, safety, and sanity.”
Nothing is Safe
“When this first started happening, my Gmail accounts could easily be accessed and data removed,” the victim told us. “They didn’t seem to be able to touch Facebook at all, so once I noticed Gmail was not safe, I started uploading stuff to Facebook and looking for other people this was happening to. Some of these people are crazy, talking about something mystical or magical about it. But there is nothing magical about it; this is just human beings using technology on a power trip. I sifted through the different people who were talking about this and found a small batch of people who were making sense. We started a little group, and I uploaded a screenshot of the heat-map scan I told you about that has the double pulsars that I found out were NSA cyber-weapons. Anyway, they changed the password to my Facebook account; that was how they managed to get the data. They couldn’t access the servers to make it disappear, but they knew what my password was because they watch every letter I type. But I tried to log in to the Facebook account, and it was changed. I was also locked out of my Gmail accounts that way. I am 100% surveilled.”
The victim said he has turned to AI to gain insight into what is happening around him. “It’s wonderful because it’s an expert on a bunch of things,” he said. “I’ve been using three, because they make mistakes sometimes. So I will ask Copilot, DeepSeek and ChatGPT the same questions and analyze their responses. I’ve been doing little experiments where DeepSeek will give me an answer, and I’ll copy and paste it into ChatGPT and ask it to analyze it, and if they always agree, then I feel pretty confident that the answer is correct. None of them so far has corrected the other; they’ll just reformat the answer sometimes. So that’s how I’ve been doing my research. I’m not an expert, so this is the best research tool out there so far.”
As for whether the stalkers increase the intensity of their attacks on any given day or at a specific time, the victim told us:
The intensity of the harassment appears to vary with which individuals are on “shift”, rather than any day of the week.
Some participants appear to be more sadistic (and careless) than others, in terms of how often they conduct their harassment and noise campaigns…they appear to be playing a game, they appear to be enjoying their game, and they appear to already know they have “won” the game, and will never be held accountable.
The Post & Email asked if the indications of multiple wi-fi networks in his area could be normal home-based networks without nefarious intent, he responded, “I’ve been telling people to go look at Wigle and I want to make sure. All three chatbots say this does not happen in a residential neighborhood. Wi-fi networks don’t usually move around, and they also don’t typically do ‘shifts’; they don’t come at 2:00 and stay visible until 8:00 and then get replaced by another one. There’s very much a shift-based pattern, it seems. The wi-fi points that are visible right now show some disappearing throughout the day; other ones are going to reappear, and they’re going to shift positions.”
He continued:
The ARLO device that’s always around – the last digits are “15” — is sometimes the very closest network to the house; sometimes it’s the very farthest network from the house next to the hidden network that’s always, always, switched on, and they circulate. I asked all the chatbots, “Is this normal?” and they said, “No.” You can test it out yourself. If you go to any location around and turn on the wi-fi – do it at your house — you’re going to see the same networks in the same positions every day. That’s what they call a “static” wi-fi environment. That’s normal; people don’t take their routers and move around throughout the day. So apparently that is a trademark of their activity; at least it has been for me.
As he expanded his initially limited knowledge of wi-fi mapping, the victim has confirmed the presence of as many as 50 wi-fi networks surrounding his home not normally located in residential areas. Thus far, reports of the phenomena which have dogged his daily life to local law enforcement entities have proven unfruitful.
“The perpetrators are very visible when you’re looking at the networks around you on your phone, tablet or computer,” he said. “I have reams of screenshots of these devices following me all over Hawaii, and they’re also uploaded onto a site called Wigle.net.”
Wigle describes itself as:
a catalog of wireless networks based on user-submitted observations. Submissions are not paired with actual people; rather name/password identities which people use to associate their data. The project is basically a “gee isn’t this neat” engine for learning about the spread of wireless computer usage.
One of Wigle’s stated goals is:
Educating the Public: When WiGLE started in 2001 the default for WiFi was to have no encryption at all. An end user had a choice to turn on weak encryption (40-bit WEP), or pay extra for slightly less weak encryption (128-bit WEP). Most users didn’t realize that their private networks could be accessed by anyone in the area (at various distances with antennas and amplifiers). WiGLE, and Wardriving in general, helped to educate users and put pressure on manufacturers to make network security better and easier. Nowadays WPA2 or WPA3 are the standard and defaults to “on” for most manufactured devices.
“About two months ago I went to the library and started to look at the Wigle data, and my street is on fire,” the individual told us. “I could see the heat maps. I haven’t uploaded to Wigle for a while and I’m going to start doing that again, but there is just an unbelievable number of wi-fi points surrounding my home.”
He began uploading reports of devices operating in his vicinity to Wigle in 2020, he said.
Prior to our interview, The Post & Email accessed Wigle and created an account, entering the three addresses the victim provided where harassment took place. The results appeared to validate the victim’s claims of numerous, and in some cases dozens, of wi-fi networks in close proximity. In contrast, entering a random but valid address from another part of the country yielded no such result.
Will There Be an Investigation?
The victim has contacted his local district attorney and sheriff’s office, including sending a formal, highly detailed report of the perpetrators’ behavior, effects on his life and his own extensive research. However, he believes even with a law enforcement investigation, the perpetrators will remain undaunted, at least in the immediate. “To be clear, they appear to be 100% confident they are allowed to operate above the law, on a daily basis, in the Nation of Laws,’” he told us. “This feeling of impunity is the strongest indicator to me that there simply has to be some kind of tacit approval from law enforcement.”
On Friday The Post & Email contacted the Sheriff’s Office of the County of Santa Clara, CA, where the victim resides. Following an email exchange with the media office, we expect to speak with Sergeant Russell Davis on Tuesday or Wednesday.
To be continued.