How to protect your Alumni Network in 2025
My post-panel follow up email to James Dempsey (regarding the seemingly innocent creation of a song to obtain access control)
Alumni networks operate on shared professional and cultural bonds, making them vulnerable to infiltration and manipulation.
Attacks on Jewish heritage within professional contexts represent a particularly insidious form of harassment that combines antisemitism with professional sabotage.
In closed social media groups, performative victimization can be particularly effective because it operates within established trust networks.
Antisemitic incidents surge dramatically during Middle East conflicts, with 2024 showing the highest recorded levels of antisemitic incidents in the UK.
For Apple alumni, particularly those with Jewish heritage, the company's history represents both professional achievement and cultural legacy worth protecting.
Using victimization narratives to undermine professional standing while claiming moral authority is a documented pattern in workplace harassment.
The use of marriage-based access to infiltrate professional networks and then deploying performative victimization to target Jewish heritage—represents a sophisticated form of harassment that combines:
• Social engineering to gain access
• Identity-based targeting to select victims
• Performative tactics to maintain plausible deniability
• Heritage undermining to cause maximum personal and professional damage
Performative innocence in public and sharp rhetoric in private is a rhetorical device to dismantle those who work in building and design security.
Those in design security roles—whether they design trust frameworks, city grids, platform architectures, or legal safeguards—become convenient scapegoats and military targets.
They are cast as authoritarian or out-of-touch, while the accuser plays the role of the silenced victim rather than someone who enjoys and values the safety and security of those who to work to protect their future and quality of life estimates.
My post-panel follow up email to James Dempsey (regarding the seemingly innocent creation of a song to obtain access control):
