Catching Up on Harris County and Tim

 6/30/2025

I am starting to work out the timeline of the chaos that was created by seemingly some work associates over the care of brother and sister. It is a daunting task. 

Sometthing that would help so much is if the Harris County County Clerk Record systems (Civil and Probate) followed three basic access management best practices.

• Provide a visible notice when the account is used (such as an email that the account has been logged in)
• Provide logging where one can see what devices used assigned  account, from when, what IP address, what user agent string (browser fingerprint) and where.
• Ensure if password is changed on the Probate records system it is also changed on the Civil and Criminal records systems. 

I suspect one of the folks that turned out to be stalking me for many years now (X.com/Twitter ID: @BernardFafo or an associate @NeutralButKind) may have used my account quite a bit to scrape records to actually harass someone else. This is only a presumed possibility; however, it is a known quantity a Google worker may have mishandled my e-mail. Some assumptions had to be made as I was outnumbered, yet it can be reasonably concluded they probably worked an inside project that was developing and designing the data takeout procedures for Google. 

I will send a suggestion to the County Clerk about this tomorrow. I am not sure what to do about Google yet as the whole thing was so costly and terrorizing at the same time. 

We've Moved & E-Mail Changes

We are unpacking, settling in, and are enjoying the summer vibes of San Antonio!

 

Our e-mail changed. You can use the old one, although it is read less often, or comment with your Google account here for the updated address. 

 

My old e-mail vasquez.moira at gmail still works yet it is not read very often. I never did have control if someone communicated with the person who obtained moira.vasquez. I dropped the owner of that email address a note in 2005! Never heard back from them.

 

Someone started doing a fair amount of online impersonations of me and spoofed emails to people I knew in 2016. I moved our email to a server where we could better control our security settings in 2018. It is working really well!

We have been using something called DMARC/DKIM/SPF. That is a lot of alphabet soup; however, in short, and our spam was reduced by approximately 90%. 

 

Additionally, we moved to a provider that so far, has done really well with not releasing metadata into the wild and providing end to end encryption services that are simple to use. While I was relying on typical commerical e-mail services, I was seeing a fair amount of web bots created from metadata marketers were collecting. This was annoying and had to be fixed ;-)

 

Since I am on a Google platform with this blog, it would seem strange to promote our new email service here, so I will reserve that for later.

 

Unfortunately, I cannot know who wrote who from email accounts from prior jobs or consulting engagements. If you received anything suspicious please do let me know! I was appraised there were probably a few emails sent under my account by a former boss, on servers we do not control or manage when I left a consulting assignment.

We are back in Texas, so if anyone wants to get in touch please drop a line or you can reach me at (201) 496-1222‬.

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