My NSA friction-point, maybe?

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I just posted up a story that I had to re-write from memory. This is the one that went missing off my computer the night before the Boston Marathon bombing. ...And that would have been a Friday night my time over here where I reside.

The fact is, the thing kept somehow just getting wiped clear off the computer - it happened about three times in the two/three days before. I'm not completely computer illiterate and I could see someone taking over control of the pc, but it wasn't the same kind of thing as the server people doing it. It was like, a bunch of 'shadow web-addresses' mimicking what I usually went to - even Lit here. And then, all of a sudden, the story file went completely missing. I did scans and I found one copy via a system re-set and no sooner had I found it when the same 'sequence' took place again and even that disappeared.

I even did deep scans and everything else was completely intact on my pc EXCEPT for the particular story. I don't think there's ways of explaining that other than to look at the possibility of outside interference.

The story was originally called 'Solo Midnight Running,' and frankly, I can't see too much of a connection between what I was writing about really, and the Boston thing.

The story I just posted is now called 'Mind Candy,' and it's in the Sci-Fi category (also still in the new stories for the moment).

It's just a story, there's nothing I 'deliberately' tried to say as far as I'm concerned, and there's certainly nothing that I know about to do with the Boston bombing.

Sometimes I think there's a lot of stuff people - maybe even government agencies - think is 'secret' but it just plain isn't and everybody who is into industrial or commercial product research can access the papers and they will already know about and be aware of from academic-circulated abstracts about new-edge things.

Do I think 'mind control' is used in various terrorist events? Hard to suppose that it wasn't ever used...

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Sure if the story had have been called 'Mass Daytime Running' and it was posted five days BEFORE the bombing then it might have raised an eyebrow - but hey, the thing was totally a co-incidence.

I am not a spy for anyone. And I have never sent covert or hidden messsages anywhere via stories or via anything else.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

You, of course, realize that everything you've said is exactly what a spy would say, right? *eyes suspiciously*

Seriously, who are you working for? Invictus? Illuminati? Project Valkyrie? Beyoncé and Jay-Z? I've know for years now that all the most dangerous terrorist groups have been poised to enter the highly profitable, super important realm of B-list amateur smut writing, but had to wait for the perfect time, when security was lax...more lax...until that one woman wasn't looking. Then, they would unleash their most dangerous servant--The Witch King! But celebrate not servant of darkness, for AMB is onto you, and though I may look weak and deceptively small and pudgy, like a hobbit with a knife, I will bring you down!

 

[sr71plt]

A vivid imagination is always a good thing for a writer to have.

 

[slyc_willie]

Sometimes I think there's a lot of stuff people - maybe even government agencies - think is 'secret' but it just plain isn't and everybody who is into industrial or commercial product research can access the papers and they will already know about and be aware of from academic-circulated abstracts about new-edge things.

My CO was fond of saying, "ninety percent of what the military does is classified, and ninety percent of that doesn't need to be."

And while yes, you are being spied upon by evil Internet data processing programs, I don't think you have to worry about some bored NSA hacker purposefully deleting a single story from your hard drive. Sounds more like you might need to defrag your computer.

 

[Hypoxia]

Even paranoiacs have enemies.

 

[sr71plt]

But do they have enough aluminum foil for their hats?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Sounds like malware. Or a trojan. Unplug your computer from the internet and run a virus/malware scan.

Unless the person logging in to your computer is a friend who is fucking with you, no one at any government agency would care what you, a lowly, unknown, wanna be writer has on their computer.

Or...

You sleep walk and delete the thing yourself for no reason at all.

 

[49greg]

Back up, back up, back up. And not to the 'cloud'. I've lost two computers to total system failure, luckily the last one was just the day after I had done a complete back up. Thank god for flash drives.

But, that sounds like a plot for a story. I've never written sci/fi horror stuff, but maybe a writer writing about that one thing that is not allowed for even consenting couples to do or remember .... Gremlins, menehunes, the secret security forces of the moral majority/minority, were scanning all writers to make sure that this one illicit thing was never mentioned.

Because if it was, then all the moral brainwashing that has been going on since the Garden of Eden would be deleted and everyone in the world would suddenly lose all inhibitions and strip down and start sexing.

"Hey Baby, anyone want to shag" LOL. or whatever it was that Austin Powers said.

OK yeah, weak, but then so are my stories.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Yeah definitely back up, X 3!!

This was that typical 'one time I didn't' - and I was getting rather lax around then too, but I just couldn't figure if there was one specific (and what that might have been) thing triggering someone's ire, or just the timing/co-incidence.

Frankly, all of this stuff once did interest me - same as the billion other people who went to see various 007 flicks and the brand's zillion knock-offs but it's all getting tiresome to the extent that I've seen enough real fuck ups, and so have others here, by various groups who have the money and the authority to do a little better, and just plain don't.

Anyway who gives a fuck anymore about this kind of stuff. Not me. Most governments around the whole entire world cannot create lasting economic growth and if any one of them ever did or could, THEN it would be some kind of secret worth protecting. Otherwise, it's just more and more guys on steroids and speed dressed in ballistic gear and full body cover running around in the dark bullying people because they can.

Or think they can until the inevitable next counter-move trips a team up and delivers their liquidized insides on a curry plate to the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

To AMB:

The Illuminati are guys in hoods called 'Gugelmann' holding flaming torches who traipse around the high class theatres in Europe whenever Swan Lake is put on.

Just thought you'd like to know that, in case you didn't already.

They celebrate King Ludwig who built the fairy tale castle in which secret balls are (were) held late at night, and the knowledge that he was murdered.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

I'd like to see Jay-Z put on a version of Swan Lake. Naturally, there ARE black swans in it... And he would put on a very professional job I'm sure.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

To Slyc Willie - you are right; I don't need to worry.

I have a vivid imagination, plenty of tin foil, and lots of fish hooks and bait for the bored hackers.