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| == Sources of electronic harassment == | == Sources of electronic harassment == | ||
| A privately funded investigation involving two UK police forces lasting seventeen months resulted in finding of six victims |
A privately funded investigation involving where two UK police forces lasting seventeen months resulted in finding of six electronic harassment victims, living in different parts of the UK. Most of them were living in cities such as London, Birmingham and Manchester. All six of them were experiencing continuous ] harassment and directed energy weapon abuse. Investigators discovered that in the cases of all six individuals the source of their electronic harassment was from from small which were present in the airspace above them. The drones were able to remain in constant flight using beamed power which supplied from the ground using high power diode lasers. In order to supply power to the lasers, the operators were stealing power from high voltage electrical grid pylons using a UAV with a power hooking facility which could be moved easily and re-attached to another location where exposed electricity grid cables were present. Beamed power can be transmitted to the drones which are the source of the harassment over many miles by daisy chaining multiple harassment drones. | ||
| In the past, the source of electronic harassment was usually from perpetrators on the ground instead of large swarms of UAV's or drones as in all six aforementioned cases. These electronic harassment drones are remotely piloted using global satellite providers. | |||
| In all six cases, the operators of the drones sourcing the harassment had not obtained or applied for licenses from the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) needed to operate them legally. The investigation involved questioning an ex RAF pilot who had thirty eight years of aircraft experience. He was an expert on remote piloting techniques who had also spent four years as a safety inspector specifically with unmanned aerial vehicles. According to him the quadroter drones sourcing the electronic harassment were illegal because they were not being operated with a red anti-collision beacons which is very important in preventing collisions because it allows other aircraft to see them. They also did not have a correctly positioned white strobe which is a light that must be pointing in a forward direction at all times. | |||
| == See also == | == See also == | ||
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Electronic harassment is a term referring to the use of electronic devices to harass, torture, or physically harm a person, not to be confused with cyberstalking.
Laws against electronic harassment
Michigan
Public act 257 of 2003 makes it a felony for a person to "manufacture, deliver, possess, transport, place, use, or release" a "harmful electronic or electromagnetic device" for "an unlawful purpose"; also made into a felony is the act of causing "an individual to falsely believe that the individual has been exposed to a... harmful electronic or electromagnetic device."
Public act 328 of 1931 makes it a felony for a person to "sell, offer for sale, or possess" a "portable device or weapon" the emits an "electrical current, impulse, wave, or beam may be directed, which current, impulse, wave, or beam" can "incapacitate temporarily, injure, or kill". This can apply to Tasers or handheld lasers, etc.
Maine
Public law 264, H.P. 868 - L.D. 1271 criminalizes the knowing, intentional, and/or reckless use of an electronic weapon on another person, defining an electronic weapon as a portable device or weapon emitting an electrical current, impulse, beam, or wave with disabling effects on a human being.
Massachusetts
Chapter 170 of the Acts of 2004, Section 140 of the General Laws, section 131J states: "No person shall possess a portable device or weapon from which an electrical current, impulse, wave or beam may be directed, which current, impulse, wave or beam is designed to incapacitate temporarily, injure or kill, except ... Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the house of correction for not less than 6 months nor more than 2 1/2 years, or by both such fine and imprisonment."
Sources of electronic harassment
A privately funded investigation involving where two UK police forces lasting seventeen months resulted in finding of six electronic harassment victims, living in different parts of the UK. Most of them were living in cities such as London, Birmingham and Manchester. All six of them were experiencing continuous voice to skull harassment and directed energy weapon abuse. Investigators discovered that in the cases of all six individuals the source of their electronic harassment was from from small quad-rotor drones which were present in the airspace above them. The drones were able to remain in constant flight using beamed power which supplied from the ground using high power diode lasers. In order to supply power to the lasers, the operators were stealing power from high voltage electrical grid pylons using a UAV with a power hooking facility which could be moved easily and re-attached to another location where exposed electricity grid cables were present. Beamed power can be transmitted to the drones which are the source of the harassment over many miles by daisy chaining multiple harassment drones.
In the past, the source of electronic harassment was usually from perpetrators on the ground instead of large swarms of UAV's or drones as in all six aforementioned cases. These electronic harassment drones are remotely piloted using global satellite providers.
In all six cases, the operators of the drones sourcing the harassment had not obtained or applied for licenses from the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) needed to operate them legally. The investigation involved questioning an ex RAF pilot who had thirty eight years of aircraft experience. He was an expert on remote piloting techniques who had also spent four years as a safety inspector specifically with unmanned aerial vehicles. According to him the quadroter drones sourcing the electronic harassment were illegal because they were not being operated with a red anti-collision beacons which is very important in preventing collisions because it allows other aircraft to see them. They also did not have a correctly positioned white strobe which is a light that must be pointing in a forward direction at all times.
See also
2References
- "2003-PA-0257". Legislature.mi.gov. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- "Michigan Legislature - Section 750.224a". Legislature.mi.gov. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- "PUBLIC Law Chapter 264". Mainelegislature.org. 2003-01-15. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
- "Session Laws: CHAPTER 170 of the Acts of 2004". Malegislature.gov. 2004-07-15. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
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