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A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
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Re: A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
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Between STIR/SHAKEN and NSA, this guy hasn't been found yet?
Even if they catch this person it could be some random psychopath in a country that doesn't cooperate with us law enforcement. Everyone's worried about AI taking their jobs and becoming an evil overlord of the world... They've overlooked millions of soft targets and the risk posed to critical infrastructure and daily life.
I don't think its a stretch to classify anyone associated with the manufacturer of real world hysteria (DOS like this or Ransomware collectives) as a Terrorist subject to the same toolbox for removal. AI Deepfakes are going to make threats like this serious and so should be the response.
Re: A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
#43Phones needs to automatically send true identity of caller when calling emergency services. Ie your sim/e-sim needs to act as certificate. Certificate is presented to 911. Same when calling bank etc.
This helps how? Just stick in a prepay sim
Re: A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
#44Is swatting a thing outside of the US? I've never heard of it happening here in the Netherlands. It seems to me that the concept of swatting requires a not-to-competent shoot-first-ask-questions-later police force. If the US police force uniquely has these qualities, it seems prudent to reorganise it.
It doesn't. The Dutch "Dienst Speciale Interventies" as the SWAT team is called aren't trigger-happy cowboys that jump into the first call they get. They're only used against identified criminals that are known to be armed and dangerous. Common sense is still a thing in the Netherlands. :) They're often trained in the US though.
They'll just send it out a pair of cops to check out the situation with care.
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Except for the police, who call for gun control all the time, because of the obvious self interest. You can see the policy paper of the International Association of Chiefs of Police: https://www.theiacp.org/sites/default/files/2018-08/IACP%20F... The IACP has been a strong supporter of the assault weapons ban since 1992, and our membership has approved several reauthorizations of support in the years since. The membe…
Nice try but the assault weapons ban is almost the weakest form of gun control, right behind “no guns for the clinically insane.” Handguns are involved in vastly more death and crime, yet no one tries to stop them. Concealed firearms are what terrify police, so why not strictly license concealable firearms?
What’s the strongest form?
Re: A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
#46Phones needs to automatically send true identity of caller when calling emergency services. Ie your sim/e-sim needs to act as certificate. Certificate is presented to 911. Same when calling bank etc.
This helps how? Just stick in a prepay sim
Traditional prepaid are basically illegal in EU now. You need to provide name, address and social security number to buy and activate them. I guess US could follow. With that said, it's a terrible idea.
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This helps how? Just stick in a prepay sim
Traditional prepaid are basically illegal in EU now. You need to provide name, address and social security number to buy and activate them. I guess US could follow. With that said, it's a terrible idea.
Hmm no? Not in Ireland or Netherlands. You can just grab one at the counter and they work straight away.
I always grab the ones from tesco mobile as I don't want to be tracked everywhere
Re: A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
#48Is swatting a thing outside of the US? I've never heard of it happening here in the Netherlands. It seems to me that the concept of swatting requires a not-to-competent shoot-first-ask-questions-later police force. If the US police force uniquely has these qualities, it seems prudent to reorganise it.
> If the US police force uniquely has these qualities, it seems prudent to reorganise it. Part of the problem is that there is no "US police force" to overhaul. There are federal police (FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE, TSA, etc), state police, county police, local police, sheriffs, military police, special task forces and more. Reforming any one group is a big job, reforming the whole system is borderline impossible without a re…
Specifically, there are 18,000 police jurisdictions in the USA. Each “police force” has completely separate management and reports to a different authority body (most are “ruled” by the government of a city).
No one body oversees these 18,000 different police forces.
Re: A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America
#49Is swatting a thing outside of the US? I've never heard of it happening here in the Netherlands. It seems to me that the concept of swatting requires a not-to-competent shoot-first-ask-questions-later police force. If the US police force uniquely has these qualities, it seems prudent to reorganise it.
It happened in Germany: https://www.vice.com/de/article/9aqy9y/erstes-deutsches-swat... But much more prevalent are 'legal' search and seizure actions against political opponents and activists.
I case someone is interested in some search and seizure actions that happend in germany: https://www.xn--pimmelgate-sd-7ob.de/en/
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Nice try but the assault weapons ban is almost the weakest form of gun control, right behind “no guns for the clinically insane.” Handguns are involved in vastly more death and crime, yet no one tries to stop them. Concealed firearms are what terrify police, so why not strictly license concealable firearms?
What’s the strongest form?
no guns 4 u.
Obviously there’s a continuum here, and this end includes “likely to be eaten by a bear” in some parts of America.