pjmedia.com By David Manney
The Prank That Became a Weapon
It used to be a term known only in gamer forums and YouTube livestreams: “swatting.” What began as a dark joke in the digital underground has metastasized into a full-blown public threat.
This isn’t about annoying prank calls or fire alarms being pulled at high school assemblies.
Swatting is armed psychological warfare, weaponizing our emergency response systems, and manipulating public trust.
This week, Romanian national Thomasz Szabo pleaded guilty to organizing over 75 swatting attacks against public officials, including a former U.S. president.
This wasn’t a misguided teenager calling 911 on his Xbox rival.
This was a calculated, premeditated cyber assault that involved impersonating victims, spoofing caller IDs, and deploying American SWAT teams like pawns.
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