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Swatter gets 20 years in prison
MightyUnclean
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Drunk, can't fine my prior post.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/29/18287257/serial-swatter-tyler-barriss-prison-sentence-kansas
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/29/18287257/serial-swatter-tyler-barriss-prison-sentence-kansas
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maybe people will think twice before becoming(Psychotic) Angry over a video game hahahahah
(Hopefully that $1.50 bet was worth 20 years in jail) Have a Nice day !!
RIP person who got killed, always soo sad to hear about a death =(
Such a stupid thing to do, over a $1.50 bet.
(that said, while I think 20 years is good enough for this one incident, apparently the swatter has a history of doing these sorts of things, in which case I kinda wish he got 50+ years)
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I grew up poor, and remain poor to this day, despite being a fairly hard worker. I know how many people struggle when they aren't born to privilege. I understand consequences, and have endured at least two major tragedies in my life. After so many experiences, I feel as if I can't trust our young people anymore.
This is a sad story, and over a bet of $1.50. People often project their hardships into their gaming. Having a bad day? Maybe acknowledge you aren't your best self and take a break. When did these people begin to think it was a good idea to call SWAT!? How would that even cross someone's mind?
I stayed out of trouble after some really rough years. Sometimes i think I should have stayed in the military, but not so sure anymore if I ever should have served in the first place. I imagine this country needs to "lose" eventually, like the old European powers did. Rebuild a better society, let our young understand consequences and respect for one another, no matter their differences, both physical and ideological.
Sorry, am ranting now, just read about this and it upset me. Unfathomable.
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The system in place for those old laws had not been changed for over 50 years.
updated to add just one of several interesting links on the matter.
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/11/577074478/big-tech-improvements-to-911-system-raises-the-risk-of-more-swatting
I think you misunderstand my statement for something other than it's meaning. Our system is not designed yet to PREVENT these things from happening. There is a ton of NEW legislation since 2015 to deal with the issue. There are dozens of articles about this. Very simple.
The articles themselves state the legal system had fallen behind our technology. Not a controversial statment.
Have I been disrespectful of your thread? I can wait until you get over your hangover.
Now I'm being snarky.
I've been swatted once IRL by some racist idiots calling in phony pranks to the police so I know what that is like, but it leads me to concerns.
The only reason this idiot was caught is because he did it from home, and talked to other people about doing it so assume that a person doesn't let anyone else they are doing it, and instead does the swatting call from a "Bruner Phone" using "Public IP address" and Spoofing methods that cannot be traced to the user done once and then destroyed after, there is nothing to trace the calls back except "Voice Matching, and CCTV Footage but that can be avoided."
Look at Ice Poseidon though how people frame him using his IP address to do things by hacking into his equipment and stuff to leave fake threats on a persons twitter account think it was a mayor.
Obviously I don't beleive he did anything but because it came from his IP Address they took all his equipment even though he did nothing.
Also California forcing anyone to get a film license who records videos in public is insane even if its just from your phone or go-pro as a biker for example its just dumb.