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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by PenguinCoder on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:30PM (#27901289)
People can, and have died from this practice. But sure, give zero consequences to the assholes doing it, I'm sure that will teach them a valuable lesson.

Do stupid shit, win stupid prizes. No empathy for these kids.

Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by sjg007 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @12:30AM (#27902346)
With the voip spam, it'll come from Russia, China or India.. it's a major denial of service threat we are ill equipped to handle. We need crypto style authentication for phone calls.
Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by PenguinCoder on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @11:32AM (#27907662)
I thought Shaken and Stir, would help with some of that. The problem still comes from the bad actors doing this 'swatting', and the law enforcement agencies not having better policies to deal with this.