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The lawyer is Mark Zaid. I’m guessing you can search the former client Mike Beck and see what you come up with, but I think due to his position and it not bein

The lawyer is Mark Zaid. I’m guessing you can search the former client Mike Beck and see what you come up with, but I think due to his position and it not being 24 people from an embassy, most of the facts remain confidential/classified. The following is a excerpt from a Miami Hearld news article: In a separate case, another Zaid client — Mike Beck, a retired National Security Agency counterintelligence officer — suffered a "potentially similar attack" in the 1990s when he traveled to an unidentified country. Years later, Beck and a companion on the trip were found to be suffering from Parkinson's disease. A confidential report convinced him that his illness was linked to a covert attack with a weapon that used microwaves, Beck told The Washington Post last year. "My gut is that this has been going on for a while," said Zaid. "The NSA has revealed to me in an unclassified setting that a foreign power has used a microwave weapon against people."

toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
Weapon seems unlikely, tool seems more likely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) Something like that, powered by a couple of microwave beams out of phase which constructively interfere on intersection would allow you to reduce the power of each beam. If your head were in the area of constructive interference though, you’d have damage. So an attack in the sense of depraved indifference to potential harm, but probably not meant to be an attack.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  The beams would have to each be very close to the danger level. So not something like that.
  - toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
    Using separate beams to constructively interfere allows for at least half the necessary power being delivered per beam. The more beams you use the greater the effect and the less each beam needs to carry on its own. This is not my field, but it seems like you could have beam be quite weak until the necessary constructive interference occurs. What am I missing? I’m not being sarcastic, I’d truly like to know.
    - Dylan16807 8y ago
      Even 1/20 of dangerous is quite a lot of energy and vastly more than you would need to surveil. And unless the beams are exceptionally narrow and all aimed at the exact same spot, you're going to be filling the room with smaller peaks and it will be very noticeable as heat and touch and more.
      - toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
        I see, thanks for the information, I stand corrected.

toufiqbarhamov 8y ago

Weapon seems unlikely, tool seems more likely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) Something like that, powered by a couple of microwave beams out of phase which constructively interfere on intersection would allow you to reduce the power of each beam. If your head were in the area of constructive interference though, you’d have damage. So an attack in the sense of depraved indifference to potential harm, but probably not meant to be an attack.

Dylan16807 8y ago
The beams would have to each be very close to the danger level. So not something like that.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
  Using separate beams to constructively interfere allows for at least half the necessary power being delivered per beam. The more beams you use the greater the effect and the less each beam needs to carry on its own. This is not my field, but it seems like you could have beam be quite weak until the necessary constructive interference occurs. What am I missing? I’m not being sarcastic, I’d truly like to know.
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    Even 1/20 of dangerous is quite a lot of energy and vastly more than you would need to surveil. And unless the beams are exceptionally narrow and all aimed at the exact same spot, you're going to be filling the room with smaller peaks and it will be very noticeable as heat and touch and more.
    - toufiqbarhamov 8y ago
      I see, thanks for the information, I stand corrected.