Wayback
A children’s story⌗
SIGNAL⌗
On 12/9/2020, I would notice that one of my websites was inaccessible from the outside world.
ANALYSIS⌗
This is undocumented behavior from Gitlab. Typical access controls are OAuth-based. Essentially, they require user login to access a page.
In this instance, access control appears to be authorized at my home IP address, but nowhere else. It doesn’t work on 4G. This is particularly interesting, because this is not a feature that me, as a user, has any control over. It is undocumented.
By my estimation, this website was “flagged” - perhaps by the FBI - and has been silently blocked from public view. They left my home IP address authorized in the hopes that I would not notice they were manipulating my work.
The Internet Archive⌗
SIGNAL⌗
Later, I would learn that somebody captured a snapshot of this site on 12/9/2020:
ANALYSIS⌗
I don’t know who would have captured this snapshot. The site was made public just three days prior, and at that point, I had shared it with nobody. A web crawler is not going to just randomly find a website.
No, somebody must be surveilling me. Maybe they heard me speaking about it on that damn Google Home device?
SIGNAL⌗
I would later learn that ALL of my websites had a snapshot taken on 12/9/2020. Two of the sites, singulari.org, and thefold.io were giving “404 Not Found” errors during this time:
ANALYSIS⌗
This is especially strange, because it shows that THREE sites were manipulated, total. Remember, verification happens in threes.
Two sites were brought down just before snapshots were made. After, they were brought online again, while the third - carrotpredator.com - was brought down permanently.
If this isn’t evidence of direct manipulation, I don’t know what is.
The FBI’s lie⌗
ACTION⌗
On 12/10/2020, I would call the FBI to give them this website. At this point, I hadn’t yet discovered all of the above events.
The woman I spoke to was cagey with me. When I gave her this website, she asked, “Is that it?”
When I asked her to verify the URL, she read it back to me - and she had misspelled the domain name. I had her correct that mistake.
Then, I asked her if she could test the website, to be sure she can access it. She told me that she was able to see it.
I said, “Well, that’s strange. I have Google Analytics, and I should have seen your hit. Are you using an adblocker?”
She responded, “No… I’m sorry, my computer is being slow.”
So, she had lied.
I told her that I would wait. Several minutes would pass, and she would waffle-on about her slow computer. Eventually, she would confirm, “Okay, here it is. The page just loaded.”
I still didn’t see a hit. I asked her, “What do you see?”
A few more minutes passed. She responded, “It says ‘bad gateway.'”
So, she had lied again.
At that point, there was nothing else she could do. A bad gateway is out of her control. Somebody else is blocking the site. I let her go, and moved on with life.
ANALYSIS⌗
Almost certainly, given the things I’ve researched, I am flagged in the FBI database as something like a “suspect” or an “asset.” She was being coy with me because this is what she was being told to do. Almost certainly, her slow responses and “slow computer” were an excuse to instant message a superior giving her instructions.
This situation is so, completely fucked. If you can’t trust the FBI, who can you trust?
They already knew⌗
ACTION⌗
Several hours after my call with the FBI, I would return to Google Analytics, to see if anyone had hit the site. I noticed something strange:
ANALYSIS⌗
At 4:00am, there were 2-3 hits from San Jose, CA. At that point in the day, I had not yet shared this 3 day-old website with ANYBODY. Nobody should have known that it existed at all.
The fact that all three hits came from one location is compelling. It could be verification that the FBI is already watching me, and knew that I would make a phone call to them on that day. Just like the prediction in the above link.
There is an FBI office in San Jose. As well, the Customer Preview database was seeded with data from our largest customer, who was in California.