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Question: what isn’t swatting a punishable act for the person who called?
Sure, but these folks are masking themselves with spoofed numbers, VPNs, etc.
Then so for an identification or lower the response force. It feels like they just get a random phone call, no proof of anything and they just barge in within 10min. But when my neighbor plays loud music all night no one cares.
When you call the police on your loud neighbor do you say, "their music is too loud" or do you say, "a bunch of suspicious looking people have been going in and out carrying bags of fertilizer and electronic components."
Not sure where she lives other than Maine, might be a small wealthy town with a bored police department.
Why would a swat team be sent for your neighbor's loud music?
Why does your comment have almost 50 upvotes?
I have no idea why so many people upvote this stupid comment.
Yeah, that's what I'm asking.
You really want to try and work out such a system? Tell me how your algorithm is going to work and I'll start throwing exceptions.
Lives are on the line! You better have quite the bulletproof plan.
Since when do cops give a single shit about people's lives?
They have obligation to pretend they do.
All you need is a VPN and a VOIP number. It's not hard to do and you can order them easily online. Let alone text to voice readers.
There's a reason why swatting and bomb threats have been popular for a decade now.
Privacy is a two way street. When it comes to serious threats, the same things that protect you, protect people who would abuse those tools.
That’s my point. It should not be that easy.
Well unless you want FBI back doors built into every VPN in every sovereign nation, then it's unfortunately a byproduct of our need for privacy due to corporate and governmental overreach.
The FBI and other three letter agencies already pay huge bucks for hats when they can. Common encryption aren't going to be broken for at least a couple decades. We almost always encrypt better than decrypt though by the very nature of the process though.
Quantum computing is moving faster than most people realize but it will never beat out better encryption.
Or maybe calls from voip are identified before sending out a swat team
Problem is there's a ton of legitimate VoIP. My brother had a VoIP home phone for years because it costs next to nothing. Police can't just not go to a call because it's a VoIP call.
I’m saying show a little more caution. (I know lol)
They can spoof the phone number so it's a phone number associated the address.
Well, since conservatives are cowards- it’s virtually impossible to catch them because they’ve perfected hiding and/or blaming others for their crimes.
It is. The problems arise when it's an anonymous phone call. The police are still going to show up to a potential hostage situation if the caller spoofs a number.
Arguably, the cops knew the address they were going to was a Secretary of State, but they went there anyway.
Didn't read the article, huh? FAFO with 911, you'll see if it's punishable or not.