Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison

Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison by soco on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:23AM (#27916669)

In the age of the AI profiling a face in the crowd, it's very difficult to believe that some system to look up the caller ID cannot be brought to work.

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Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison by lm28469 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @04:33AM (#27916723)

AI is still dog shit for 99.9% of applications, we're not playing chess here. It would add an insane amount of complexity and points of failure for an edge case. If it even fucks up once it would need to be retired.

I know HN loves to think raw tech will save the world but come on... this is a societal problem, not a tech problem

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Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison by therealEleix on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:21AM (#27919202)

Even if caller id had been used in this situation, he could have easily spoofed the number to appear to be coming from the neighbors house since they would have already had all the information necessary to do so. The Caller ID system you're thinking of simply does not exist. The current system is much to easy too spoof. Anyone with $15 and a VoIP number can do it.

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Re:Serial swatter who caused death gets five years in prison by rich_sasha on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:38AM (#27920125)

Notably, the caller was identified, it seems. The problem wasn't identifying the caller, rather taking his accusation at face value.

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