Link Hijacking

Compromise⌗

SIGNAL⌗

The Girl Next Door plugs an ad for Dollar Shave Club. - @0:00

ANALYSIS⌗

For whatever reason, I was driven to click her affiliate link. This is something I never do with advertisements.

Immediately following, Google Assistant opened up on my phone. The URL, however, did not.

Quite simply, the FBI was showing me that, yes, they can and do compromise phones through URL handlers.

ACTION⌗

As alluded to here, I purchased a new phone in response.

A romantic story⌗

SIGNAL⌗

In response to a telephone call, The Girl Next Door says, “I truly abhor telephones. I wish we lived in a pre Graham-Bell era where people just wrote letters, and just waited for a message back. I mean, it was a far more romantic era, where silence was key.” - @6:37

ANALYSIS⌗

This could be a subtle clue calling attention to the romance of my story. Rather than approaching The Raven directly, I spent a long time “writing letters,” in the hope that she would respond in due time.