Don’t get me wrong, Flattery goes a long way with me but that was not rocket science. As you know Helena, came by and said yet again that the delivery was postponed. I knew we will never see this phone but I felt that we had the advantage so I asked the Target to go and lay a Charge of Entrapment against Helena. My aim was to have some sort of paper or record trail. I knew or hoped that the Target would fail but would collect sufficient evidence so that he could genuinely prove he had attempted to do so, evidence like the name of the Officer at the front desk he had talked to. I was by now fully convinced that Helena was full of wind but there was still a slight possibility that Helena could hold some damaging information that could impede the Target’s freedom of movement.
I therefore decided to write the main points of a letter to be delivered to Helena and signed by the Target. I wanted to inform him that we knew what he was doing, that we would make sure to thoroughly check and cross reference Court Orders, assuming that there are any and so ensuring him that he won’t be able to escape his legal responsibilities. I wanted the letter to be delivered by a competent recognized authority. I explained that we were ready to go fully public and take our responsibilities in front of a Court of Justice, something the Services dislike intensely. We prefer to be in the clear rather than to have imbeciles hiding behind the next tree playing cloak and dagger games. I suggested that the paper should be delivered by the Sheriff of the Court as I was still after provable paper trails. I was not sure that it could be done but we had to attempt to do it. As it turned out to be…. We decided to keep costs low and instead of having to use the Sheriff of the Court to deliver the letter, we went to Postnet who delivered it officially for us. However though they tried to deliver the letter, it was rejected at the address and we await its return to Postnet to further clarify the issue.
We used the Tracking System that was provided by Postnet and observed from Postnet and a screenshot we captured that a certain ‘Patricia’ received the letter. The next day however this was cancelled and the Postnet delivery operative called the local Postnet Office we had used and said that there was no one of this name at the address. After several days, our operatives retrieved the letter from Postnet. We know of course that this was the exact address of Captain Helena and we also know exactly where his workplace offices are located. We will follow this up again and whether he likes it or not, he will receive it. I want to add that Helena appears like the last village idiot according to our description but your record also says that he is not immune to using violence which he makes others accomplish while watching from behind his tree. Pushing him too much could result in a disastrous circumstance, which is why I wanted the Sheriff to deliver the letter so that there is no possibility of him accusing us of blackmailing him or him thinking that he could resort to violence to sort out his troubles.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you, you deserve every cent that we never paid you.
Thank you for the exciting late winter evening Steven.
Julia you are the curator and the one who allows all of us to operate, at least concerning this station. Tell us rapidly what were your intentions if this phone had been delivered.
Firstly, I would have lifted the fingerprints, it is not rocket science you know, and there is plenty of media out there which explains the why and the how. Then we also operate several honey pots. When scanned, these machines operate a modern operating system Like Win 10 or 11 but actually the calculators themselves are very old (As explained in the video) (I refer to computers as calculators
as at the start, all electronic machines performing these tasks were called calculators while humans were designated as computers because of their abilities). In fact, I debloat the operating system of the computer and it makes a perfect honey pot running like a genuine administrative account. Originally, these honey pots were meant to trap an intruder but for someone who has invited himself inside the system, I will do things differently. After clocking the hostile hardware in a bogus network, and defining the IP address after the handshake, I would have forwarded this IP to all the You tubers who fight scammers. It is irrelevant if I knew that this scammer was a genuine Captain of the Intelligence Service. I do not really care if at this moment the intruder (the Hacker) was from the Intelligence Service of the most powerful country in Africa; their computers would have been targeted, locked and destroyed. I want a Judge in the country of ‘Madiba’ to tell me that Captain Helena, a vicious pervert, has the right to see me in the simplest apparatus because the computer that he targeted is also connected to mine. My question to this Judge is what does Helena do with all this footage after he has trapped his Target? Does Captain Helena satisfy himself, does he share it with the Queen of Sheba or the Pastor or what …?
An interesting insight, absolutely clear. Can you please tell us what are the other procedures that you put in place for the defense of the International Outsider?
Well at this level, there is nothing much more to be done. In my case, if it was to come to that, I would have resigned and focused on Captain Helena so that he knows if ever he gained this victory, the game is not over.
I would also like to add something in relation to what deep throat said, notably that the Target is not as smart as he thinks. A great part of what I know concerning modern computing has been taught to me by the Target. Oh, I was also born among computing machine and knew languages like basic, Fortran, Cobol, etc but with the Target, I learned to immerse and understand large language models, I indulge myself now in coding in R l, infiltration or brute force. Yes we may not know sufficiently. But we surely know more than the third grades peripheral bandits that the service employs. Third grade, because the intelligence services will prefer to spare
the money for more ‘Important things’ like the so called ‘State Security Reasons’. Another way to imply operations that ultimately their pockets. Yes, our computers are not as super duper as theirs. But on one thing the pathetic fool was completely right. Without a plant or a treacherous USB directly connected to our genuine network which works strictly on Linux operating systems, a system that never, ever gets on the internet. For Captain Helena to satisfy his morbid desires, he will have to find a Judge as corrupted as he is and ask for a warrant to examine our calculators. And in any case, even so, he can kiss the place that the sun does not shine on, goodbye! because he will have the worth of two or three days of information, as we throw everything to Korea on a regular basis. The little insignificant man should know and bear constantly in his mind that there is no version of this story that he gets on the top without taking tremendous and overwhelming damage. I personally will make absolutely sure that it is so, as I long to teach him something that in our computing jargon we dubbed, indiscriminate bombing and obliteration.
Thank you Julia, it certainly clarifies the issues raised.
: Look like many of us if not all, this affair has taken its toll on me. One thing that I have to say is that despite the fact that everyone who knows me writing about astronautics, history, astronomy and hard science in general, my main degree is Philosophy of Science. I have others but that first one equates to me like what a first love is to a man or a woman. By now, we had all decided minutes ago that we will publish an unedited version of this article so I am sorry for our readers due to the realities of my first love. I unfortunately will be long in my explanation. I will start by the why we are doing this article. I want to say that we are doing it against the legal advice of Steven Martin whose first degree was Law and Deep Throat (Law) and 2 individual lawyer friends that advised us against this because anyone engaging in a court case should not reveal points publicly that are winning points as well as those contra to them. 
I never thought that it was applicable and contrary to us. There is a second reason. We could be doing an exercise to overwhelm the adversary in public so that he backs off at least for a period of time leaving us to prepare a solid defense or for the Target to illegally flee the country. However, there are 2 real reasons that no one here or connected by phone or a distinct video communication has ever mentioned. The first one is that we always will fight Injustice and even more so when it applies to someone close to us but as a reason, it looks more like a media trick and maybe irrelevant. But still it is one reason that motivates us. The most important is that despite the fact that we want to appear right now to the public like Julia would say ‘Tough Cookies’, disciplined at almost a militaristic level, that is only an image. The reason we are doing it friends is because we fear for our friend, we fear for the implications for our business. I will stop here because there are many other fears and we will not enumerate all of them. The reality is we fear and some of us are even terrified by the potential consequences. I am not speaking about the Target as he is in total rage and nothing else. The worst movie of Science Fiction I have ever seen in my life, of which I have seen hundreds if not thousands, is called “After Earth”. It stars this tall black guy. What’s his name?
Will Smith, the dude who clapped the other guy in the Oscars ceremony because of his wife.
That’s him but I remember him better kicking the arse of an alien and smoking a cigar afterwards. Anyway, like wisely the ‘Oracle of London’ always says, despite the atrocious rating I give to this – Low- , there is however one line in the movie that personally I think is one
of the greatest lines not only in a science fiction movie but in all movies ever. I can’t quote it exactly but it goes like this “Fear does not give to a man anything at all, there is no single advantage to it, none! Do not get me wrong’. The Prince of BelAir continues, ‘The Danger is absolutely real but fear in itself my friend is totally pointless’. Let us look calmly at what we can be accused of. First, you personally Steven, how many times in the past year did you hear that we are fraudsters.
Countless.
And from where did it come from mainly?
: Mainly from cops, Police Officers both from SAPS (South African Police Service) and EMPD (Ekhuruleni Metropolitan Police Department), many of whom I regard as friends and acquaintances and with whom I interact daily. Obviously we are not fraudsters; it is the usual way the Intelligence Services act when they want to knock you down and in South Africa, despite their avowed independence, they are still beholden to western powers. We represent an independent voice in the wilderness, one they want to silence.
Second question. We could produce a lot about that, the Fraudster thing. But I want you to tell the readers what we’ve done against the Internet Fraudsters, the ‘Yahoo’ boys and others.
Firstly, we thwarted an International bank fraud in Lesotho which also encompassed South Africa. It was for 50 million ZAR (South African Rand) and involved the relevant authorities of both countries who we worked with to prevent the fraud succeeding and enable them to catch the perpetrators. Secondly, the so called ‘Tariq’ affair which involved large scale bank fraud and included people from Morocco and across the globe. It involved millions, actually billions of ZAR (South African Rand) and encompassed car chases, guns and extreme nastiness and even the untimely death of one of the key players. It also included the closing down of a major server in Pretoria. Then there was the whole Yahoo Boys affair which involved the Nigerian scammers who profess love online through various internet dating sites like Tinder. Once they have the Lady (sometimes it’s a man) snared, they then fleece them of their money by coming up with semi plausible reasons for the victim to send it to them using an elaborate series of bank accounts to clean it and make it virtually untraceable. (The scammers are not only Nigerian nationals but the term is used pejoratively).
Staying still on the fraud subject, do you know exactly where these rumors originate from?
Well before Helena started to play games, we were already in R and D, if I can put it like that. At this time, the Internet Café was a thing across South Africa and the African continent in general. With your help and two others, we thought about a system which would connect all the Cafés and allow them to communicate. For so doing we created the Internet Café Toolbar. The system did not only allow communication but also boosted the presence of the café on the web as the software was individually uploaded on a website carrying the name of the café. As the Café users access the internet through the Toolbar, the bandwidth generated and the clicks were insane. The smallest Cafés were collecting two to three gigs of traffic per day. One only had to type internet cafés 
in Africa for our websites to pop up in the very first places. We were really doing well. At this time South Africa was unfortunately experiencing xenophobic troubles resulting in sporadic riots. Those Cafés were generally operated by foreign nationals as some are still nowadays since there are still some of these businesses resisting extinction in the country. But the clients are from across the spectrum of the society. With the Toolbar, the Internet Cafe owners had an automatic independent way to warn the others if trouble was approaching. Back then as today, our focus was students and kids who were among the majority of the clients, researching for their homework, printing CVs etc. We wanted them to be warned swiftly and to get out of the way of potential riots. At a moment, we operated some forty Cafes and had a few outside the country in the Ivory Coast, Lesotho and others. We also offered the Toolbar completely freely to the owners and you can imagine the results on our main website! We were really at the top.
That sounds great, what happened?
Good question! Our success started to bother two sets of people, first the ones who considered that their hegemony threatened. At that time all our sites were hosted by Afrihost. For those who do not know Afrihost is the most important internet service provider in this country and the African Continent in general, a bit like GoDaddy, and morally speaking they are the same. From nowhere they started to accuse us of running a malware and without warning, shut down all the sites. We tried to speak to them, to provide them the technical details and even the full coding but they would not hear anything. We did a video on them calling them ‘Afrihost, Pure Internet Thieves’. We did not forget Afrihost and we told them many times that we will revisit the case and as you know, we have the memory of an elephant.
But there were other players Anton.
Yes, for me to achieve perfect integration of the Cafés, I had to clean all the operating systems and deal with all the bottlenecks. In so doing I came upon several spywares leading to the’ Usual Suspects’. I got rid of them which evidently did not please the watchers. Suddenly from nowhere stories about us doing fraud started to get out. We know the game, we are called the ‘Outsiders’ we have been beaten on the back so often that we do not notice it anymore. But we swore that it was the very last time. That was when we set out to get an organization who’s Administration, Backup Storage and main Operatives would be situated in different countries making it difficult for a lone actor, powerful as it can be, to knock us down. We will take on anyone who thinks he is above our unimpeachable rights.
If I may add the toolbar survives. We put online since few years already, the Astronomy Toolbar for PC. It targets students, astronomy nerds and others, since its conception it has received thousands of visits and carries on one page, some 350 links. At this very moment I am working with the Target to update it on a regular basis with our own home grown AI. Once the proof of concept reveals itself sound, we are preparing a surprise for Afrihost and the Main Stream media in general. It will take some time and more studies as well as investments but we are confident that soon we will have a breakthrough. As we always do.
Thank you, Julia. Thanks Steven. I will pursue our interviewer role by asking you, what is the second thing you are always accused of and by the same token, all of us?
Well, if you interrogate an AI or go through the statistics of all the websites managed by the International Outsider, at 37% the most frequently asked question is, are you Russian Spies?
As a matter of fact, 2 weeks ago, you told me what happened to you not far from here.
I was buying some groceries close to us at a little shop when the chap serving me said “Ah. You and your friend are Russian spies. Everyone knows that”. I was taken aback so I asked him why he said that. He said’ because we always see the Police being careful with you and we know that people watch you all the time”.
About Russian Spies, let me tell you something. I write a lot against the Ukrainian government (I write from time to time), I do not recognize their legitimacy. Without any BS’sing, I am more inclined to believe the “Russian” narrative concerning the Ukrainian war. I hope that makes it quite clear about my biases which translate in my automatic first inclination whenever news about this conflict is in the press. However, I am not Russian, I’m not Ukrainian either but the Ukrainian people from Kiev to the great city of 
Kharkov have helped me to live among other races and cultures, to live simply with very little income, to find out any information I need to know and above all else, to survive extreme hardship and deprivation. They protected me; they loved me and clothed me when I needed it. Today, I am writing against the same people who did all that wonderful display of humanity towards me. If schizophrenic is the first thought in your mind when you think about my comments, then you would have understood what I meant perfectly. Later, I hope to have the chance to speak about Ukraine and the Ukrainian conflict a little bit more.
But first about the ‘Russian Spy ‘issue. If today, our opinion seems to be pro Russian, (by the way I found it very funny that a pro Russian person is defined according to this term in the West. Paradoxically, in Russia and several Eastern European countries, the diminutive pro means protiv which means against. If you are for Russia you should say I am ‘za Russia’ when za means for). And here I will digress because digression obliges. You personally Steven among all the Embassies found in Pretoria had the worst experience with the Russian one did you not?
Well, we were then on a field operation in Pretoria. We were there almost for 6 months, ‘living ‘in close proximity to the Russian embassy. We were obtuse in our determination to understand what kind of nastiness had infiltrated the highest section of Pretoria’s society and was also plaguing Officers of undetermined other Embassies in this country. We played dumb, we had to. One of these close encounters involved me approaching the Security Guards at the entrance of the Russian Embassy and as night follows day, they reacted by spraying me with Pepper Spray outside the Embassy’s premises. Very soon after, 2 people, possibly Russian nationals, 
came in front to support the Security Guards. As you remember Anton, you were heroically hiding behind me avoiding being Pepper sprayed while the Security of the Embassy was screaming ‘What language is that?’ hysterically. To which the 2 Russian gentlemen responded in perfect English syntactically, ‘This language is Russian’. So understandably the Russian embassy does not have a close love relationship with us. We did worse.
I think you are not really fair by saying heroically because I detected the irony. I was just crawling behind your back to ensure that the only person able to communicate was alive when negotiations started.
Great. Very reassuring. Xxxxxxx But apart from that little matter, one thing has to be said. At this moment we were on a mission, a mission lasting more than a year in Pretoria. We never attacked the Russian Embassy publicly. Concerning Embassies, we wrote to 
the American Embassy in South Africa, in regard to the issue of Gonzalo Lira’s incarceration by the Ukrainian SBU (He was an independent journalist). We then responded to what an’ influencer’ of the Independent media was saying. The man’s name was Brian Berletic.’ You do not have to agree with everything that Gonzalo said. The fact is about Ukraine, he is exactly spot on’. This is not an exact quote. Brian also said’ Speak to your Rep in Congress about Gonzalo. Make a noise’. We answered to the call. On 30/05/2023, one of the owner’s of the International Outsider took his pen and challenged the American Embassy in South Africa about Gonzalo Lira’s imprisonment as he was an American citizen as well as Chilean. A more than token move from our small newspaper but how many voices in Africa in general did the same thing?
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