Caught on the Twittersphere:
This indicates two things. One, Hillary is wracked with insecurity and anxiety. This is not the move of a person confident in their own ability to step on stage and discuss issues intelligently. She needed this buffer between her and the raw, unrefined onslaught of facing Donald J. Trump, or she will just be too afraid.
Two, Hillary feels grossly inferior to Trump in some way that she requires someone’s assistance. That someone may very well have been Robert Cialdini, or one of his people, feeding her “persuasion lines” designed to compete with Trump’s mastery of persuasion. This is great, because now that we know about this, Trump can employ countermeasures, to rob Hillary of this at the next debate.
It also might indicate Hillary has had some significant cognitive decline due to her strokes and concussions, possibly relating to memory, making debate prep very difficult, and necessitating this form of cheating. This was not done lightly.
Now some other thoughts.
The inductive earpiece Hillary is using is somewhat larger than the state of the art today, which is designed to be completely hidden inside the ear canal, being inserted and removed with a special tool. The state of the art is essentially undetectable, even up close, though I am not aware of it being made available to civilians. As you can see at this site, where the page Title is coded as “GSM smallest inductive radio cheat invisible Bluetooth exam micro nano earpiece“, they are commonly sold in the private sector to students for purposes of cheating on tests.
Although a less sophisticated model common to the private sector, that type of induction earpiece was originally designed to facilitate covert communications by surveillance operatives in the field. It is part of what is commonly referred to in the business as a three-wire body communications rig. The unit consists of a main radio unit that is concealed on the body and contains the receiver, transmitter, battery, and associated circuitry, as well as a three-wire harness. One wire exits the main receiver unit and leads to a covert microphone, most commonly taped to the center of the chest between the pectoral muscles, under the clothes, though sometimes it can be routed through a sleeve to the wrist. A second wire contains a squelch button, usually leading into a front pants pocket, into which an operative would casually reach to key open a channel when they wanted to transmit. Sometimes the squelch button is routed to the sleeve, where it can be pinched to open a channel to transmit. The third wire is routed over the shoulder on the side of the earpiece, to be close to it, and it is an inductor wire, which creates a fluctuating electromagnetic field, based on the communications sent.
The earpiece used to use what was at least a 24 hour battery, though technology has improved. The earpiece detects the field fluctuations of the inductor wire, and converts them to sound (radio signal reception and conversion would require too much energy consumption, compared to induction field conversion, however the power limitations within the earpiece also mean there is no encryption over this phase of transmission either).
A fourth antenna wire is usually attached to the radio, and threaded up over the shoulder opposite to the earpiece inductor wire, and that is what receives team transmissions and broadcasts out to the team.
There are two possibilities for transmission. One is cell phone, and one is radio frequencies.
Although the radio frequency would probably be encrypted, and cell phone would be impenetrable, the induction wire’s transmissions would not be out of reach. Thus it might be possible with the correct technology, for Trump to place something small within range of the inductor wire, designed to capture what is being transmitted, and rebroadcast it to a receiver/recorder on him for purposes of recording. If he wanted to play, he could have something disposable cooked up, pat Hillary on the back to stick it to her, and then it would transmit the induction signal to him, where he would record the feed for future release and embarrassment.
Even if he didn’t do that, but he let it out he was thinking of it, and then he smartly patted her on the back a few times at the start of the next debate as he smiled to the crowd with a shit-eating grin, she would spend the rest of the debate trying to fake itch her back to feel if he stuck something there, and be freaked out. It would be a major amygdala hijack. Or he could stick something small to the podium to perform the same function, in the interest of keeping Cheatin’ Hillary from doing her thing. It is even possible if they were close enough, he could pick up the inductor’s transmissions with something in his upper inside jacket pocket.
Although I think it unlikely, if it was radio, Trump could ask SS for their frequencies, and then hire a professional to scan the spectrum for any outside frequencies, and jam them when they are found. If he knew this was coming, he might even be able to overpower Cialdini’s’s transmitter, and pipe insults and ridicule into her ear through the whole debate, Rickroll her, or provide some other loud, harsh, amygdala hijacking, physically uncomfortable, distracting stimulus that she would be unable to stop under the glare of the lights on stage, and all of the cameras.
If she was using either radio or the cell network, he could even stick his own inductor on her, or in her podium, wired into a burner phone or radio of his, to pipe his stream into her earpiece along side Cialdini’s. He might even be able to use a beefed up inductor on him to overpower her’s, though the exponential drop in field strength with distance would require quite a powerful unit, likely custom made, and close proximity. But to have a seizure-prone decrepit, who bobs around uncontrollably at every loud noise, forced to absorb whatever Trump wanted to put into her ear, would be priceless. And she could never complain, because she would have to admit to the earpiece to do it.
The possibilities are endless, if Roger Stone wanted to get involved. If I were doing it, given Hillary’s propensity to have a seizure when exposed to sudden loud noises, I would create a recording beforehand containing alternating periods of quiet, unpredictably interspersed with sudden, amygdala-triggering loud noises. Everything from sudden outbreaks of machinegun fire, to sudden loud dying rabbit calls, to sudden ear-shattering Bulgarian disco, to nails on chalkboards, babies crying, women shrieking, “Pepe Sig Hail!” and so on, all interspersed with quiet, and interjected unexpectedly. It would be quite a sight to see Hillary just suddenly start her bobble-head routine on stage, stop, laugh, fake her head roll as if to say, I meant to do that, and then act as if nothing happened, before it all happened again, seemingly for no reason at all.
If this was run on regular radio signals (again, unlikely but possible), Secret Service is not just going to have an encrypted radio feed they cannot listen to, unexpectedly start flying around a protected venue, and not concern themselves with it. I am pretty sure if I showed up with an encrypted walkie, opened a channel, and began transmitting an encrypted feed of gibberish, the Secret Service’s Technical Services Division would immediately detect the encrypted traffic, notify the on scene commander, and the shit would immediately begin to hit the fan behind the scenes, because that could easily be an attack about to happen. They might even have the ability to triangulate signals at venues. If it was radio, either Secret Service was warned by the Clinton camp this was coming, Secret Service ran it for the Clinton camp on request, or the feed was unencrypted, so Secret Service could listen in and determine it was just the normal innocent cheating common to the Clinton camp.
If it was either of the first two, Trump could force Secret Service to reveal what they know, by threatening to portray them as helping Clinton cheat in a debate. Either they knew about the comms, and made a special exemption for Hillary to help her cheat, or they set up the comm network, and helped her cheat. The optics on both are atrocious, because if they are interfering in the process to help one candidate sabotage another, what honest candidate will want them within a country mile of their campaign. They would be seen as campaign saboteurs.
If however, as may be most likely, it was run on the cell phone network, then Trump, or a minion in the audience close enough to Hillary, could just pick up a pocket cell phone jammer off Ebay, and then casually reach in a pocket and bip it on and off to cause Hillary’s phone to drop the call at the start of the debate, and after each commercial break (during which she would presumably try to reconnect). It is an FCC violation, but the chances of trouble are slim for the gain received, considering it would just be a few short bips to break the connection, nobody could really say why one of the people in the audience was doing it since nobody should have been on their phone anyway, and Hillary could never admit she needed the phone line to cheat at the debate.
Once the call was dropped, it would be very difficult for Hillary to deal with her phone on stage to reconnect, so it would be as effective as jamming. Just the violation of expectation alone would be immensely amygdala hijacking, and distracting. If you knew her phone number and could then call it, and she tried to covertly reconnect by reaching in a pocket, thinking it was Cialdini, or whoever, then you would have a line into her ear, and the game would be on all over again.
I hope Trump plays this in the future somehow, given all the opportunities he has, even if he only uses it to stick the new moniker, “Cheatin’ Hillary” on her.
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The SS has direction finding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSS_Electronic_Countermeasures_Suburban
That suburban (in addition to the domes on top) has four antennas, one on each corner of the van. The reason you configure four identical antennas in an array like that is for doppler direction finding. Hams use rigs like this all the time for foxhunting (finding hidden transmitters as a sport).
http://kn2c.us/
Finding a spread spectrum frequency hopping signal with doppler is hard, but that doesn’t mean that they couldn’t do it. Finding a steady FM signal (which digital encryption will always be) is dirt simple. Tune the receiver, look at the arrow on the screen. If it is combined with GPS, you can drive a few hundred feet, shoot another bearing, and triangulate the signal exactly. (Again, hams do this all the time as a matter of course.)
I tweeted this article to Trump, maybe one of his minions will read it.
Thank you!
One of the funniest pieces I have read in a very long time.
And great advice to boot.
This is delicious. As a precaution, I’m going to figure out how to jam these things in my classrooms. Thanks for the heads-up.
That she’s using older technology just shows that this is not the first time she’s used it; it’s been going on for quite a while.
Okay, yes … but Hillary hates them all anyway — Secret Service, Marines, anything in a uniform. Just as with her e-mail server, she likely has her own in-house operation.
Ooops, I intended that reply for David.
Secret Service protective detail is, as I understand it, a subsidiary of the CIA (which is a government-within-a-government all by itself, and has been since JFK and RFK were eliminated as threats to its continuation.)
The presidential contest is just Kabuki Theater to them.
If we assume minimal competency on the Hillary team, questionable given the lack of skill on the server fiasco, the radio link would not be a normal cell call that could be dropped. Too easy.
I’d use a signal in the same band with the secret service as my first option, only an idiot would go for jamming in that region since the odds the secret service are prepared to swiftly deal with that contingency is high. Second would be in the middle of the multitude of radio signals the TV crew would be using to put on the show.
The winning move would be a highly directional antenna aimed at the earpiece from behind the stage. The range would not be a problem with a high gain antenna and a couple of watts of transmit power. Just let Trump’s secret service detail know an hour in advance so they can know it isn’t dangerous. The trick is to get somebody close enough to Hillary in advance to monitor her and work out the details of the comm system ahead of time.
There is no way anyone competent would put his signal near the others you mentioned. If it is near the USSS, then they are going to dig it out because of potential interference. Double so for the media — they won’t just find it, they will RECORD it.
The LAST thing you want with a covert signal is inadvertent interference. That means using signals that aren’t even in the same band.
Can the signal be traced back to the puppeteer? How?
If they are using a cell phone, probably not. Walkies could get triangulated with the right equipment or, directional antennas.
Cellphones can be DFed with good enough equipment. USSS has “good enough”. They don’t need to though, because they run ISMI catcher stingrays, and the phone will tell THEM where it is (and who it belongs to).
There will be two signals — the transmitter and the induction loop. If it’s a cell phone connection, three, because cell phones handshake.
All transmitters can be DFed. If you can receive it, you can eventually find it.
That thing is too small to have any form of encryption… unless she was wearing a computer or other device, about the size of a cell phone, on her person for the signals to be translated through.
Cell phones are literally two way radios. They work exactly like radios; i.e. they transmit, can be traced, tracked, id’ed, jammed, spoofed, intercepted, etc exactly like your average walky-talky. In fact, while the data on your iphone may be heavily encrypted, the radio signal of your audio conversation is not (heavily encrypted). You would notice a difference for an encrypted connection; there is an obvious giveaway. They differ in how they communicate from traditional walkies in two ways: 1st they do not establish radio to radio communication, they always communicate and transmit through land-line based towers (even if the person you are talking to is literally standing right beside you); 2nd, they use a different frequency range than traditional walkies and that’s it.
Basically, all you’d need to do to break this supposed system is to identify the official freqs (used by the SS or news outlets) then employ a freq hopping brute force barrage jammer to make every other possible (antenna size and power requirements dictate frequency range) freq unusable. These jammers cover a range of frequencies and broadcast disruptive sounds at high decibel ranges, running through their freq range once every tenth of a second or so. Essentially you are making unencrypted analog lines incoherent and overpowering encrypted/digital freqs so the computer can not “hear” the correct signal.
Seems like this might be related:
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/14039#efmAGDAG2
Long time reader, very infrequent commenter. Any, just saw an article at weaponsman.com about the spy catalog you weren’t supposed to see. Was wondering if you’ve read it, and if so, what are your thoughts? Found it through a link at Western rifle shooters.
http://weaponsman.com/?p=34822
I’ve been meaning to get a post up on this, it’s queued for today.
Thanks for the reminder.