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The creator of the QWK offline mail format, Mark "Sparky" Herring, widely used on BBSs, suffered a heart attack in a swatting and died. He was being harassed to
by virgulino 3y ago
The creator of the QWK offline mail format, Mark "Sparky" Herring, widely used on BBSs, suffered a heart attack in a swatting and died. He was being harassed to hand over his Twitter username.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/qwk_swatting_death/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/qwk_swatting_death/
- billy99k 3y agoThe group of people that swatted him should have gotten life in prison. They essentially killed him.
- tptacek 3y agoAnybody who SWATs anybody is essentially attempting to kill that person. That's the joke.
- jacquesm 3y agoI don't get the joke. Instead of repeatedly swatting this guy they should allocate all of those resources to identifying the people doing this.
- graeme 3y agoIt's a reference to this Simpsons bit. The idea being it is not a good joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llE7wT1BKt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llE7wT1BKt8
- billy99k 3y agoThe police doing their job is different than someone on the Internet making up a call to get someone murdered. The police are not at fault here.
- tptacek 3y agoI don't think we disagree?