None of this is concrete evidence of anything specific, but rather, indicative of some kind of tampering that was done to both my systems and my friends systems for some unknown reason.
I don't know if this could be private sector work, and I can't think of anything a corporation would want that bad given these efforts. The botched laptop reassembly and my broken USB (Universal Serial Bus) reader indicate that whoever it was might have been a newbie or simply careless.
The reality is that I will likely never know who or why this was done, and any of the above items could be passed off as coincidence or paranoia.
“c o d e r l o g [1]”
The ramblings of someone who is too paranoid, or a harbinger of things to come? I can only hope it's paranoia and not some nameless Three Letter Agency going around spying on us …
[1] http://cubicmetercrystal.com/log/log-0015.html#24-march-2003