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Re:FBI finally tracks “swatting” incidents as attacks increa... by calvinmorrison on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:00PM (#36543715)
Well 911 calls have locations in a few seconds. If I am a zoomer prankster calling from San Jose swatting a guy in NJ.... hum thats a long knife
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Re:FBI finally tracks “swatting” incidents as attacks increa... by jauer on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:08PM (#36543801)
Most low-cost VoIP providers will let you set your e911 address to whatever you want without any verification.
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Re:FBI finally tracks “swatting” incidents as attacks increa... by dylan604 on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:03PM (#36543746)
If only spoofing your caller ID were possible...
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Re:FBI finally tracks “swatting” incidents as attacks increa... by wmf on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:17PM (#36543908)
This is kind of a nitpick but caller ID, ANI, E911, and now STIR/SHAKEN are different protocols AFAIK and spoofing them takes different amounts of effort. Unfortunately capitalism turned SS7 into swiss cheese so the effort probably varies from trivial to easy.
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