The police informant networks have thoroughly penetrated Taser, Inc. (and most other large and mid-sized companies). Police informants take their first orders from the State, and do whatever their case officers ask them to, because if they don't they go to prison. Police informants are a lot more prevalent in the tech industry than you might think, because it is so easy to scare techies into turning informant ("become an informant or we send you to jail on this bullshit drug charge"). So, whenever the police, or someone with connections to the police, wants something from a company like Taser Inc., like the passcodes for an unactivated Taser, or an untraceable Taser, they just ask for it from an informant on the inside and get it, totally unaccountably.

Storing everything in a (not really) anonymous online "cloud" makes it easier for the authorities to wipe out data their corporate masters don't like. Also, it's another way to extort money from users.

Let me give an example. A woman is gang-raped and a sock is stuffed in her mouth during the act so she can't cry out for help. Afterwards, her rapists follow her everywhere she goes and leave socks in her path, as a way of saying, "Don't tell anyone." Socks become associated with the woman's trauma in her mind, as a form of psychological conditioning. The sight of a sock causes her to relive the experience.

I don't expect society to pass laws against socks, but I would like to see some recognition here that sometimes, a symbol is more than just a symbol. Is there anyone here on Slashdot who's suffered more hardship than being unable to log into World of Warcraft?

To further confuse the issue, this kind of psychological warfare is used in organized stalking aka "gang stalking", in a form of state sanctioned terror. Governments like to pretend that gang stalking doesn't exist, so I expect the issues surrounding "hate crimes" to be muddled, possibly deliberately, for a long time.

Awareness of psychological warfare techniques will have to come from below, i.e. leaderless resistance. Waiting for the authorities to tell you what to think is so very not-Slashdot... but I see lots of group think and mental flocking around clever debaters. I expect flocking from birds, but I'd hope for more from human beings. You can't figure out everything sitting in front of your keyboard, you need some real experience to understand certain phenomena.

I wonder if there's anyone here who can genuinely understand what I'm saying.