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It seems to happen often to streamers and people in the computer security community (Krebs, fb exec, mudge).
by TACIXAT 7y ago
It seems to happen often to streamers and people in the computer security community (Krebs, fb exec, mudge).
- FDSGSG 7y ago>mudge Preettty sure that was just a misguided welfare check incorrectly described as a "swatting". See context: https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/1211043309973622784 https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/1211043309973622784 Odds are someone was worried about him after his tweet, not that someone called the police and pretended to have hostages at his address. It's certainly never appropriate in the US to call the cops if you think that someone might be suicidal, but I don't think it'd be entirely inappropriate to be concerned by his initial tweet.
- soup10 7y agoI don't know what happened with mudge, but "welfare checks" where the person calling has ulterior motives for involving the cops in a situation are a common thing as well.
- tiku 7y agoLive streamers are perfect targets for swatters because they even stream the swatting itself..