3+ Pattern Rule
- Liz Alvarez
- 4 days ago
- 5 min read
Takes a Village
It takes a village to raise awareness and apparently, to run a covert network. What does a covert network village look like

Remember the blackmail my daughter cried about in summer 2024? That was the moment I stopped reacting and started recording. That shift changed everything.
Instead of jumping the gun, I started documenting, cross-referencing, and confirming what I now call the 3+ Pattern Rule:
Once is chance. Twice is curiosity. Three or more means confirmation.
Every time I reached “three plus,” the fog lifted just a little more.
Observation Year (2024–2025)
Once I committed to observation, the leaks got louder. The same coded language surfaced in public spaces, casual exchanges, even background chatter. So I did what came naturally I tested the field and began applying the 3+ pattern rule.
DMV Test
I sat with silent headphones no music, just environment. others’ perception of your attention creates their false sense of privacy, which is exactly when their real behavior leaks.Behind me, a man said quietly: “It’s a huge production.”
Restaurant Slip
Another person said, “When I get off the set…” then quickly corrected themselves.
By this point, I’d learned not to overreact. When you start reaching that 3+ range, your inner radar sharpens.
So here is what starts to happen. Your body begins to register tone shifts, micro-movements, and timing that’s how you separate incident from evidence.
Not every moment belongs to the puzzle.Sometimes it’s coincidence; other times, confirmation.The key is what follows: body language, glances, environmental response.Does the energy shift? Does the atmosphere tighten? If yes, log it. If not, release it.
Collecting patterns isn’t about chasing ghosts it’s about recognizing consistencies that repeat across context, space, and time.You want the right pieces in hand before connecting them, because the wrong ones distort the picture.That’s how you keep your fieldwork clean and your intuition honest.
The Cues
Each time accountability came close or photography work was mentioned certain words appeared.Cues like CUT, GOOD SPEED, and COVER TRACKS surfaced in random settings, often beside blue and green visual markers.
When accountability entered the room, here is what you’ll do, check the withdrawals: excuses, edits, emotional overdrafts. That’s how you spot someone operating on a broke fund the account looks active, but the balance is gone.
I told him once, “Take account.” But every time I asked for transparency, he tried to close the account instead switching topics, cutting scenes, pretending the audit didn’t exist.
Here’s what I learned: When there’s a breach in your account personal, digital, or financial and you ignore the early conditions, they start compounding interest in chaos.If you don’t intervene, that breach matures into bankruptcy.
Rebuilding the trust fund after a breach is a high-risk process, but the rewards are gradual and real. Each truth told, each boundary kept, is a deposit. Each act of clarity raises your credit with yourself. Over time, you requalify for your own trust fund policy one backed by integrity, not illusion.
Cloud, Visuals & Code
Here’s where observation met infrastructure. Someone connected to a global cloud-data company the kind that stores marketing analytics and photo metadata was also tied to photography networks. That crossover between imagery and information made me realize the production wasn’t metaphorical; it was systemic.
To understand how layered communication works, I studied two key sources:
Life, Limb & Infrastructure – Tim Conway (#17)
https://www.sans.org/podcasts/cyber-leaders/life-limb-and-infrastructure-tim-conway-17
Start ≈ 17:45 — on coded language in multi-subject systems.
Translating Cyber Risk – Tarah Wheeler (#14)
Both explain how professionals embed meaning inside ordinary conversation what’s technically called polysemy or coded punning.
Coded Punning
Polysemy means one phrase carrying two meanings —one for insiders, one for outsiders. (Learn more on “Raising RICO” – Learn the Code.)It’s how control hides in plain speech.
Example:
Same phrase, different frequency.That’s why it’s so effective in emotional manipulation you can be speaking truth while someone else runs an entirely different script.
When you start hearing double-coded language, track the when, who, and what follows.Patterns always reveal whats hidden.
Digital Footprints & Environmental Mapping
Then came the physical layer the where behind the words.
Patterns appeared near train stations, public libraries, and camera corridors all high-capture zones. Trains mean public Wi-Fi, motion sensors, commuter cameras.Libraries mean shared networks, low-visibility corners, and long dwell times. Together, they are perfect for discrete and quick entry and exits. However they also form live nodes perfect cover for real-time observation.
It wasn’t only public infrastructure, though.
Inside my own environment, small “adjustments” began surfacing — requests to move or remove items that blocked certain view points.
Plants, décor, even the shades were suddenly topics of concern.
Later, I learned that eight months before my move into the apartment, multiple external vantage points had already been in direct line-of-sight with the apartment.

The pattern wasn’t just digital it was architectural.
That’s when I realized: even if you cant capture every cue in the moment, the digital landscape does. Metadata, timestamps, cached imagery it all remembers and its uncut.



When someone who is camera-cautious spaces overreact to visibility, that’s your giveaway.Transparency doesn’t panic under exposure; systems built on concealment do.
Holding your ground becomes more than emotional resilience it’s forensic positioning.Stillness anchors the record while noise scrambles to overwrite it.
Supporting Case Studies
Shoshana Zuboff – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)
Shows how personal behavior is captured and monetized as predictive data.
Kate Crawford – Atlas of AI (2021)
Maps the material and visual networks that train machine perception.
Citizen Lab (University of Toronto)
Exposes spyware operations like Pegasus proof of covert digital observation.
Bellingcat Investigations
Uses open-source imagery and timestamps to verify or debunk staged events.
Each confirms that digital footprints are physical evidence.Truth always leaves a trace.
Cross-Reference / Visual Parallels
CNN Style: Beggar’s Honey – Jack Latham — staged agricultural images as metaphor for manufactured authenticity.
Instagram Reel — visual study in framing, exposure, and audience direction.
The Real Trust Fund
People think a trust fund is money. Mine’s built from truth.
Every time I stood firm when it would’ve been easier to fold, that was a deposit. Every time I refused to rewrite reality for comfort, that was interest. Every time I chose accountability over performance, that was profit.
The dishonest stay broke because their currency is counterfeit (trust me i was once there). The honest stay fun-ded because their balance sheet are backed by proof.
High risk. Real return. Honesty after being use to counterfeits can be scary and isn’t safe, but it’s solvent.
Grace vs Ground
In the midst of it all, my daughter said something that stopped me cold:
“Once you’ve been gaslit too many times, and you’ve given all those chances, you should never look back. Stand your ground.”
She’s right.Some people mistake grace for weakness,but grace without accountability just feeds the broke fund.
So I’ll leave you with this:
When does grace stop being holy and start becoming harmful? How much grace do you give to someone who’s already shown they can’t hold ground or take account? At what point do you stop extending grace and start showing them the ground?
Because grace, without ground, will drown you.
Takeaway · Holding the Frame
Every attempt to rewrite your story leaves residue timestamps, shadows, metadata or a google camera car capture. When you hold your frame, you’re not only protecting your truth; you’re preserving the record.
Observation beats reaction.
Documentation beats denial.
Be still.
Note the pattern.
Let the evidence develop.
Even when there cameras arent around, the cloud keeps rolling.





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