Thursday, October 21, 2004

Another electronic coincidence?

First it was Four Weddings and a Funeral, and now the sequel, Two Burglaries and a Coincidence.

In another bizarre twist a few days ago North East No Campaign Chairman, Judith Wallace, had problems with her telephone.
The fault was reported immediately to BT and then she lost all Broadband, e-mail and telephone communications.

There appears to be no fault at the exchange, and the fault appears to be in between the exchange and the house.
It is a remarkable coincidence that BT cannot fix the fault until 4th November...the final day of the referendum!


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Security tip, buy a new laptop pc. use a well established IP for internet use, using only 56k modem with firewall. When you need to use internet, for whatever reason, connect from a different phone.At the end of day, format your disk and reload your operating system and IP access. To stay really safe, don't use the internet, NL is watching you.

A non eu mouse

Anonymous said...

In the 1999 Euro elections, one of my UKIP colleagues complained that his phone was being tapped. "What a prat!" I thought, "Whoever would bother to do that".

Then my own phone started playing up - an echoing quality on the line, clicks and fizzing noises, sometime the bell would just start to ring, then stop. This could have been pure coincidence and an active imagination.

But two other lines in my office two miles away started to play up in just the same way. My secretary remarked on it. I mentioned this to an old stalwart of the Anti Common Market League who said they got the same treatment in the Sixties and Seventies.

As there is now "word-sensitive" equipment which responds to individiaul phrases and words, I took to using expressions like "bomb" and "kill" - as in "going like a bomb" or "kill the story" and asked the other person to speak up clearly so Tinkerbelle could hear, saying "there must be patriots in the security service too".

After a while the odd incidents ceased but do occasionally recur. I suppose they have little to to since the SOviets collapsed and are not much use these days unless they know Arabic, Urdu etc.

Anonymous said...

Tell Judith to get a Subject Access form from Northumbria Police. Fill it in along with a tenner (postal order is best). Insist that Special Branch reveal what they have. Might have nothing (or tell you nothing), but the message to them will be registered.

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