Easy Reader: Good Stuff Strand Cam ends after 25 years, ‘swatting’ to blame. “For over 25 years Good Stuff restaurant in Hermosa Beach has livestreamed a block of The Strand capturing the daily musings of passing tourists, bikers and 13th street volleyball players to online audiences worldwide. Last week, the Good Stuff Strand Cam was taken down as a safety precaution, according to Cris […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/13/easy-reader-good-stuff-strand-cam-ends-after-25-years-swatting-to-blame/#swatting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #swatting, aggregated by home.social.
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Polizei-Großeinsatz in Hagen: Mann behauptet, seinen Vater ermordet zu haben#WDR #Mord-Notruf #Polizeieinsatz #Hagen #Swatting #Telefon #NRW
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#Buttigieg #SCOTUSblog #CPS #swatting
"Pete Buttigieg, the Supreme Court, and the Fourth Amendment
In late June, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg described in a Substack post how he had endured every parent’s nightmare. Following a knock at the door of his home in Michigan, he encountered a police officer with an investigator from Child Protective Services. They asked to talk with him, and he invited them into his house.
(. . .)
According to The Washington Post, the Michigan attorney general’s office is now reviewing this matter to understand how its investigation, spurred by an anonymous tipster, got so far out of hand and whether this was a politically-motivated attack to harass Buttigieg and his family. Nevertheless, based on Supreme Court authority on the Fourth Amendment, this all could have been avoided in the first place. I wanted to use this column to explain why.
(. . .)
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/08/pete-buttigieg-the-supreme-court-and-the-fourth-amendment/
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KGUN: Tucson man files claim alleging deputies ignored swatting warnings before shooting left him paralyzed. “A Tucson man who was left paralyzed after being shot by Pima County sheriff’s deputies during a response to what his attorneys say was a false ‘swatting’ call has filed a Notice of Claim against Pima County, Sheriff Chris Nanos and numerous sheriff’s employees, alleging deputies ignored […]
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Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115506
#HackerNews #swatting #policeincident #gaminglawsuit #justice
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De horror - we hebben er weer een nieuw fenomeen bij:
Swatting is overgewaaid uit Amerika. Er wordt een valse melding gemaakt van een levensgevaarlijke situatie zoals een bommelding of gijzeling. Doel is om daarmee een SWAT-team, een arrestatieteam, naar een onschuldig slachtoffer te sturen en die hiermee te intimideren.
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SWATTING: Welsh dark-web administrator jailed over hoax that shut down a Cardiff city-centre street
A man from a quiet south Wales village helped run one of the dark web’s most notorious sites — and triggered a hoax that sent armed police storming onto a packed Cardiff street days before Christmas.
Callum Dare, 26, from Talbot Green, has been jailed after an investigation that drew in the FBI, admitting he encouraged “swatting” attacks across the world from behind his keyboard — egging on others to unleash armed police raids on innocent people’s homes for entertainment.
Swatting is the act of making a false report to the emergency services to trigger an armed response at a victim’s address — a hoax meant to terrify, and often filmed and shared online for kicks.
The term comes from SWAT, the heavily armed special weapons and tactics units used by American police. The “prank” involves fooling those units — or their UK equivalent, armed response officers — into raiding an innocent person’s home, sometimes with fatal results.
Dare was sentenced to two years and three months at Cardiff Crown Court after admitting encouraging and assisting swatting and possessing software used for fraud.
The case was brought by Tarian — the regional organised crime unit that tackles serious and cyber crime across southern Wales — after officers were alerted to an FBI investigation involving Dare in May 2019.
Investigators in the United States had traced a series of swatting incidents to a dark-web platform called Doxbin and a linked chat channel, where users discussed swatting, doxing and other criminal activity.
Doxing is the publishing of someone’s private information — such as their home address — without consent, often to enable harassment or an attack.
Officers identified Dare as an administrator of Doxbin, and said he was an active participant in the associated channel, encouraging and helping others to target people and organisations.
Messages recovered from the channel showed him claiming responsibility for multiple swatting incidents in the United States and Canada, according to the force.
Investigators said he had also produced edited video compilations of emergency responses to swatting attacks, taken from livestreams and other footage, and shared them to encourage others.
The investigation went on to link Dare to a swatting incident far closer to home.
On 17 December 2018, a caller falsely claimed to be armed with nail bombs and holding hostages at the Sandringham Hotel on St Mary Street, Cardiff.
Armed officers were deployed and the street — one of the city’s busiest — was evacuated and closed in the run-up to Christmas, causing widespread disruption.
A forensic examination of Dare’s devices recovered footage, CCTV, audio and news reports about the hoax, which the force said had been edited into a compilation video bearing the Doxbin logo.
Officers also found a compressed file containing malicious code designed to imitate dark-web marketplaces and harvest login details, which could then be used to access cryptocurrency wallets and other accounts.
Rather than stand trial, Dare pleaded guilty on 15 June to encouraging or assisting offences and to possessing an article for use in fraud, contrary to the Serious Crime Act 2007 and the Fraud Act 2006.
A spokesperson for Tarian said the force wanted to send a clear warning about the dangers of the crime.
“The consequences of swatting can be extremely serious,” they said. “False reports place innocent members of the public at risk, cause significant disruption to communities and divert emergency services away from genuine incidents.”
Special Agent in Charge Terence G. Reilly, of the FBI’s Nashville Field Office, said swatting was far from a harmless prank.
“Swatting is not a victimless prank — it is a reckless and dangerous crime that can have deadly consequences,” he said.
Louisa Robertson, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in Wales, said Dare had endangered people for his own gratification.
“Callum Dare put people in danger by encouraging the triggering of armed police responses, for his own thrills,” she said.
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
DYFED-POWYS POLICE: Force rated only ‘adequate’ as inspectors raise alarm over organised crime
#Cardiff #CardiffCrownCourt #cyberCrime #darkWeb #FBI #SouthWalesPolice #swatting #Tarian
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Many of you may have heard of #swatting and considering how many #queer folks are on here I wouldn’t be surprised if someone seeing this has been a victim or know someone who has been a victim of such an attack. Here is a new tactic - using #CPS to inflict maximum pain to queer families. #PeteButtigieg and his family were targeted with a fake CPS report and led to him being separated from his 4 year old twins while the case was being evaluated (and children being interviewed in the absence of parents). This is a horrific new tactic and I hope queer families learn about this so they are not caught flat-footed. Unfortunate post but important, I hope this seen by queer families like mine.
#swatting #queer #cps #petebuttigieg #lgbtq #lgbt #homophobia #gay #bi #lesbian #pride #USpol
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#PeteButtigieg #swatting
"Someone decided to hurt our family this week. I’m furious, and I want to share what happened."A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
"Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone."
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📬 VPN beim Gaming: Nützlicher Schutz oder teure Placebo-Lösung?
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Elderly Streamer Targeted by Swatting During Grandson's Cancer Fundraiser
Arizona streamer Sue 'GrammaCrackers' Jacquot, 81, was targeted by a swatting prank on May 19th during a fundraiser for her grandson's cancer treatment.
#swatting #GrammaCrackers #fundraiser #cancerawareness #onlineharassment
https://newsletter.tf/elderly-streamer-swatted-during-fundraiser/
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An 81-year-old streamer was targeted by a swatting prank, disrupting a fundraiser for her grandson. This is a serious disruption to a charitable event.
#swatting #GrammaCrackers #fundraiser #cancerawareness #onlineharassment
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The Register: Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson’s cancer care. “An 82-year-old grandmother who livestreams her Minecraft gameplay to raise money for her grandson’s cancer treatment faced a potentially deadly swatting attempt this week. ‘Dozens’ of armed police officers stormed the home of Sue Jacquot, known online as GrammaCrackers, on May 18 while she was […]
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An 81-Year-Old Minecraft Streamer Just Got Swatted During Cancer Fundraiser For Her Teenage Grandson
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I'm asking you all - how the heck would you react if stranger men that you've rarely engaged with online (if ever), resulted in you/your family being swatted. I'm asking how you'd react, if that happened to you & the perpetrators lied about it for over a year. I'm asking how you'd feel, being ganged up by a bunch of men & a handful of clueless women, because two misogynistic BFF men decided to make you a target because you called out their abuses in a public arena when you were already facing injustices by complete fucking strangers(cops & racists).
I'm asking how you'd feel, if you were knowingly targeted by cowardly men here for over a year & even targeted again, AFTER the cops they sent had to do walk of fucking shame to their cruisers for wasting more tax monies for no crime. I'm asking why it is fucking OK to many of you white people in tech, for you cowards to keep supporting people who committed these blatantly hateful & targeted abuses on me & my family!
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Romanian Swatting Ring Leader Draws 4-Year Prison Sentence
Thomasz Szabo, the ringleader of a notorious swatting ring, has been sentenced to four years in prison for orchestrating a campaign of fake bomb threats and swatting calls that targeted high-profile figures, including members of Congress and federal law enforcement officials. Szabo's malicious scheme sent armed police to the doors of…
#Swatting #Romania #EmergingThreats #ThreatsInvolvingExplosives #Conspiracy
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📞 One call targeting Randy Smith Middle School in Fairbanks, Alaska triggered a full emergency response.
🚓 What happens next is what most people don’t think about.
Every move leaves a trace. And investigators know where to look.
Here’s how they track them down 👇🏿
👉🏿 https://tinyurl.com/ke6yh7m8
#AlaskaNews #Fairbanks #Swatting #CyberCrime #Accountability #LawEnforcement #StaySafe #Alaska #Crime #FalseReport -
Social media crimes: Tyler Barriss
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-tyler-barriss/
#socialMediaCrimes #gaming #gamers #swatting #blackmail #cyberpsychology #psychology #onlineBehaviour #humanBehaviour #onlineSafety #socialMedia #onlineForums #identity #Cybersecurity #onlineSecurity #negativepid
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Social media crimes: Tyler Barriss
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-tyler-barriss/
#socialMediaCrimes #gaming #gamers #swatting #blackmail #cyberpsychology #psychology #onlineBehaviour #humanBehaviour #onlineSafety #socialMedia #onlineForums #identity #Cybersecurity #onlineSecurity #negativepid
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Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem unaware or don't care that their guy swatted me) - severely triggered my PTSD on being disbelieved when I tried reporting being SAed as a teen. I was bullied & ostracized for trying to report SA. People believed the rapist & not me. It brought up the same angry, disappointed & people are fucked feelings.
I had almost left Mastodon completely, due to that.The Epstein Files triggered both of those hella horrible life memories, again. I'd never been swatted before Chad Ohman chose to send that racial violence to my home, shortly after my Dad died. That night was full of unnecessary police traumas too. I'm sick of people pretending to care & I find out they don't, when shit hits the fan.
I don't need fake support. I don't need cowardly folks. That shit ends up hurting me in the long run. I don't need any fucking devil's advocates either. Go hang out with Satan.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #Trauma #PTSD #MstdnCA #DecolonizeYourMind #Swatting #RacialViolence #Bullying #Canadian #Misogyny #DevilsAdvocate
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What's the difference between trolling and online harassment? Gamergate originated within the gaming community and brought out its worst practices, exploiting social media capabilities to discredit members of a minority. Gamergate wrote the playbook of weaponized misinformation, later used to create and spread the most successful conspiracy theories.
#gamergate #socialMedia #doxxing #swatting #harassment #conspiracyTheories #algorithms #trolling
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-gamergate/
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إدانة أحد المتورطين في مضايقة ممثل مايكل من GTA 5 عبر بلاغات كاذبة VGA4A - اخبار العاب الفيديو
نجح ند لوك ” Ned Luke” الممثل الذي أدى شخصية مايكل دي سانتا في GTA 5، في إيصال أحد الأشخاص الذين قاموا بمضايقته عبر ما يُعرف بـ Swatting إلى العدالة، بعد إدانته رسميًا من قبل وزارة العدل الأمريكية. وظاهرة الـ Swatting تتمثل في القيام بإبلاغ الشرطة ببلاغات كاذبة لإرسال قوات خاصة إلى منازل الضحايا، وقد … #Games #ألعاب #GTA #GTA5 # #GrandTheftAuto5 #NedLuke #Swatting https://www.vga4a.com/archives/301263 -
Swatting is a dangerous form of cyber harassment originated within the online gaming communities. In this case, a petty argument between gamers became a tragedy, with a SWAT team deployed to the wrong address.
#swatting #swatters #SWAT #gaming #cyberbullying #tylerBarris #cybercrime #AndrewFinch
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-tyler-barriss/
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I got SWAT'ed and handcuffed LIVE while Linux development streaming! // René Rebe
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Swatting is a dangerous form of cyber harassment originated within the online gaming communities. In this case, a petty argument between gamers became a tragedy, with a SWAT team deployed to the wrong address.
#swatting #swatters #SWAT #gaming #cyberbullying #tylerBarris #cybercrime #AndrewFinch
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-tyler-barriss/
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"Violent threats, once concentrated in Washington, are increasing against local public servants, new data shows
Matt McCaffery was a relatively unknown GOP chair in suburban Pennsylvania when police showed up at his door last year after an anonymous tip accused the Marine veteran of holding his family hostage — a swatting incident meant to terrorize him and his family just hours after he endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
'If it could happen to me, small-town Matt McCaffery, it can happen to you,' said the former chairman of the Upper Merion Republican Committee.
The hoax call was just one of nearly 2,000 records of threats to local officials identified over the past decade in new data from the Impact Project and the Public Service Alliance. CBS News received exclusive access to the dataset, dubbed the 'Security Map,' ahead of its public release. It compiles more than a decade of cases from court filings, news reports and academic databases.
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Patriots targeted by hoax SWATs react to China’s role in shocking SIM farm operations
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Two juveniles charged after participating in 'new and alarming' TikTok trend in Brown County, ( #cincinnati rural burbs) #Ohio, where they used artificial intelligence to make false 911 calls about home invasions. The calls triggered emergency responses from authorities.
#AI #Crime #technology #TikTok #news #Swatting
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Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Tuesday that Kenyon Colemen was found armed in a wooded area in Humble after deputies responded to a "possible fake/swatting call." The sheriff's office now says that call was unrelated.
#Crime #HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #HarrisCountySheriffEdGonzalez #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #Humble #KenyonColemen #Swatting
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A man in Humble was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly shooting at Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies who responded to a possible “fake/swatting call," according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
#Crime #HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #HarrisCountySheriffEdGonzalez #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #HumbleTexas #Swatting
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Even if you aren't a #WhiteSupremacist #Karen, it's time to report incidents to ICE...
...at every factory coming in to the #US right now. All the factories #Trump wanted to be there most likely require #foreign #labour to fill the #expertize gap - for now.
It'll take years to train US #workers to meet the same requirements... It would be a crying shame... if ICE was inundated with reports at all those new shiny factories.
Wake up, babe, the new #swatting just dropped. It's called #icing.
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#Judges recount #DeathThreats, '#swatting' after rulings against #Trump
A group of #FederalJudges took the rare step of speaking out about receiving death threats & mysterious pizza deliveries in the name of a judge's #murdered son after they blocked parts of Trump's agenda.
"It was disturbing, it was frightening," Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island said.
#law #StochasticTerrorism #DomesticViolentExtremists
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Smashing Security podcast #425: Call of Duty: From pew-pew to pwned https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-425/ #SmashingSecurity #Vulnerability #vulnerability #Lawℴ #swatting #Malware #Podcast #police #Scam
