Clearly, I am a very sporadic blogger. What with working on my startup and devoting time to my personal life - family, friends etc., I haven't had a lot of time for blogging lately.
As some of you know, I have been dealing with a huge amount of online and offline harassment since 2009. Although I have committed nor created any problems, I have somehow (I suspect identity theft) been dragged into a huge flaming pile of poo from all over. I believe I have blogged about this in the past too. Not only was I being harassed online, I suspected (and still suspect occasionally) that I was being stalked offline & online ( Few examples: I have had strange cars follow then speed off , fake cops in uniform show up at my door, phone hacked to show incorrect current location, random apps opening as if they were under some MDM control etc.). I have also been mistaken for a muslim woman with an autistic son, although I am a born hindu woman (both me and my ex husband are born Hindus) and a US citizen for decades. Needless to say I get a LOT of irrelevant or worse data tagged to my identity and sometimes I don't get credit for my original work.
Consequently, I went to the police (all 4 police departments with jurisdiction over Cupertino California), DA of Santa Clara County California, FBI , DOJ, INS you name it, as relevant. FBI's opinion is my identity is being stolen and sold online.
Be as it may, I came across some flaming pile of poo from a purportedly "young woman" online who not only posted some shit, (gross misrepresentation of truth while hiding all evidence) but in a true knee-jerk-I'm-too-clueless-and-inexperienced-for-life-barely-can-keep-my-grey-cells-in-my-skull fashion went on to "beat me with experience" as ironically enough, SHE claimed I was doing.
( Cartman came to mind but he's way too smart to do such a shoddy job of it all.... )
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| Picture: Courtesy of @SouthPark |
Hormonal Huli: Crazy Lady Attack
( Also attached below are the screenshots of the blog post - this person has a tendency to hide true evidence when it works against its interests so I figured I'd add them ).
Now, points in order:
1. Given the background above, when I came across her blog, I was rightfully concerned about not only the same first name (which is common phenomenon) but also same nickname (In India there is no concept of specific nicknames to go with specific names unlike UK so yes it is a huge coincidence or suspicious). Additionally, she describes many events oddly parallel with mine.
2. Her blog used to claim back then that she was "18 year old student in Delhi" so I wrote a polite note to her (ask her to be decent enough to show the original note unless she chooses to edit it now - but the system will catch that and can be disproved) asking her about the coincidences and if she preferred communicating via family in Delhi ( I had some visiting family there at that time although I am from Bombay ) given her young age.
3. The note didn't seem to post so I may have accidentally posted the same thing twice.
4. Next day.. BAM! The self described "young un" suddenly is spewing garbage, (Simpsons, Margarita glasses bigger than my head - My manager at HP had sent me flowers in a Margarita glass vase as a joke and I had it at HOME but never posted it anywhere), claiming I was about 10-15 years older than I actually was and driveling on about irrelevant stuff like "Don Draper price is right" (WHY?) and calling me a dinosaur ( age joke I guess?) etc.
5. To truly show her colors she tags my first name, nickname (I have had it for decades), town, and whatever she could figure out about my work or last name to the page so that it'd show up in Google search results. This means she could also be sued by the company (A powerful one as you can see) she tagged!
Seriously, who is the batshit crazy here?
Needless to say I'd never hire someone like this to my startup like EVER or to any company I happen to be working at:
First of all this person displays no patience or ability to read/comprehend.
Furthermore she/he/it (I say this because unlike my blog , her blog shows no names and gender bio etc. could be a total lie) escalates immediately without reason and has no ability to empathize let alone form connections with others.
I just hope she is never in a situation where she needs information or has to face a hater-without-a-cause like her own self online.
Finally, OF COURSE I reported her /him/it to the authorities. It takes time, but whoever and whatever has been trying to slander, libel and harass me for the past many years, WILL be apprehended and put away to cool their heels.
I just don't jump up and down reactively or willy nilly tag names etc. to a page, to raise viewership. That's just a cheap stunt.
Unfortunately I had seen a lot of this behavior directed to me on various other social media platforms as well from self described "young people" in the past. I myself have a daughter in her 20s. Which gives me hope that not all "young people" are beyond hope or raised without ingraining any sense of fairness or decency. But seriously, it happens far too many times. Also ageism ( In this case, hate against someone older than you), is an ugly thing. Unless of course it is some one else pretending to be a young woman. Anything is possible online.
The sad part is this kind of behavior normally doesn't even register with me anymore since I have become immune to the vast arsenal of screaming obscenities and/or accusing all manners of crimes ranging from quitting the democratic party since I had the temerity to vote for Trump after voting for Democrats every election. prior, which put me beyond the pale with the eternally angry, ( never mind asking me why I voted so ) via accusations of salacious nature all the way to homicide by haters that social media regularly gives birth (or voice) to. But this time I figured I will start letting them know how stupid they are being, one clueless slanderer at a time. And hey! If any are loaded, my startup may just fund itself this way. #Lemonade.
FYI :
I had also posted on Linkedin my run-ins with the hackers, slanderers, stalkers and opinions on how to help law enforcement while balancing between privacy and security. Read the post at my linkedin profile if you want a greater, yet horrifying description of what I have been dealing with. My photo below.
I do things on my time and I don't care if he/she/it further perjures itself. No worries :) . Scroll down for the screenshot of the blog post mentioned in the link above.
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