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Harassment

The following list is to be found on the webserver of the "Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights" (www.ohchr.org) and seems to be a collection of sting operations mixed with some anarchist cookbook methods that pertain to espionage. The document seems more like a draft, containing spelling mistakes and apparently not being connected to anything in particular, making it even uncertain why the document finds itself on the website of the OHCHR. However, we have had partial exposure and some experience in dealing with these matters, and of particular interest, we have developed counter-measures to some of the things being mentioned, such that the document will be cited here with pointers to some of the things documented or created.

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Gaslighting Car

Building an anti-Tempest Device

Tempest used to be a surveillance system back in the 80s where a laser would be shone onto the window of a house and the vibrations of the window measured by the return beam. By measuring the vibrations and with a clean line of sight, this method could be used to listen in on conversations at a distance. The same principle is used more-or less, give or take a laser beam, for long-range microphones that are capable of folding their vantage point in order to listen at long distances.

Countering a Tempest device or long range microphones is probably not an easy task, but one can for sure make the surveillance operation more difficult or annoying. One way to do that is to use a vibration speaker, a speaker that is advertised to turn any surface into a speaker through resonance, and to glue the speaker onto the window. Any voice taking place within the house will then invariably end up being mingled with the sounds played through the speaker, and if the laser is pointed at the window onto which the speaker is glued, then more than likely the vibrations will overcome any speech taking place within the house.

These speakers are easy to wire up, requiring only two leads, one for ground and the other for the signal, with the main features of the vibration speaker being the face plate opposed to a small aperture on the other side that will act together like a pump by pressing onto the surface that the speaker is placed upon.

For best results, some thin double-sided sticky tape can be used in order to temporarily attach the speaker to a window. The speaker should preferably be connected to an amplifier in order to counter any impedance mismatch between the device that will output the sound and the speaker. Ideally, all the windows should have one of these speakers.

Long-Range Microphone

Long-range microphones have appeared in movies since the 1960s and are now available over the counter to people with too much time on their hands going for about 50 bucks and are able to receive from about $100m$ in range.

We weren't sure whether to file this under "Chinese humor" or to place it in this section instead given that the microphone seems to be created for the purpose of listening to your chicken coop in your garden (or the chicks in your garden? assuming you have chicks in your garden, though). Little-Red Rooster, over! :)

The Bottle

The bottle is perhaps the best friend of the anarchist because it can serve as a delivery mechanism for material at a distance by leveraging the frailty of the glass of the bottle. The idea is that the bottle is a container that can be used to transport some material at a distance where, admittedly, due to the frail glass of the bottle, the glass would shatter and the contents would then spill allover the surroundings.

With that said, a good bottle selection would consist in cheap glass bottles that are structurally frail; for example, cheap beer bottles, "delicate" spirits bottles with thin glass and even, a broken light bulb that can be leveraged for its capacious size.

Given that the purpose is to deliver a payload at a distance by shattering the glass, the contents can then range depending on application and what the purpose would be. Here are some ideas:

The Molotov Cocktail

The first recorded use of a Molotov cocktail was in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War where it was used as a cheap anti-tank weapon.

The easiest of builds is just a bottle filled with gas and with some textile material (admittedly, rips off rags such as an old t-shirt) slid into the bottle as a fuse. The purpose of a Molotov cocktail is not an explosion but rather immolation and then idea is that once the textile material is lit, the bottle is then thrown at a distance. Upon impact, the bottle shatters and the textile fuse lights the gas that has now dispersed everywhere that starts burning the surroundings.

Intuitively, the "fuse" that consists of the textile material is only dipped into the gas in order to keep the fuse wet with gas such that it can be easily lit but the fuse does not act in any way as a timer for an explosion. Similarly, "textile material" is chosen due to textile material being consumed by fire slower than, say thread or, say, cotton, that would burn much faster and reduce the time until the cocktail will have to be thrown.

Depending on what materials are available, there are variations of the Molotov cocktail that might perform better than others. Here are some ideas:

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short noise nuissance investigation carried out and forwarded to the authorities that was met with apathy and not really addressed
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various degrees of gaslighting documented in Iceland and Romania along with assorted death-threats