> I have the President of the United States' address. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Oh no! I done dox'd him!
If only we all had access to the Secret Service. Lots of modern games make use of P2P behind the scenes (e.g. for voice chat), which means that maladjusted script kiddie I just sniped already has my IP and might decide to forego DDoSing me and skip straight to calling in a hostage situation at my home address. Being able to easily resolve a concrete address from an IP is certainly a bigger deal than being able to determine its ISP.
This is sad but exposed the actual problem: militarization of our police. Of course, that is a completely different problem.
The last time I mentioned how disciplined our military was compared to seemingly trigger happy police though someone said quietly to let the military our of the barracks and live in my neighborhood as well as occupy public space everywhere within the country and my opinion will change within a few years. I suspect this is true. I don't have any solutions to this militarization, just wanted to point out that doxxing isn't there real problem but rather the swatting is.
> just wanted to point out that doxxing isn't there real problem but rather the swatting is.
The problem is that SS7 still allows anyone and their dog to spoof phone numbers. Swatting will always work because a (real) hostage situation is among the worst things that can happen for police, the others being terrorist attacks and serial killers.
Swatting can only be prevented reasonably by fixing telephony signalling and throwing the ones doing it into jail for a couple of years.
Because ALSO most forces can't spend the money to train their police in hostage situations. It isn't just giving them big "toys" that they want to play with. It isn't that they aren't trained. It is that it is impractical to train them.
How do medical doctors handle this? Do we train doctors for rare/exotic diseases in medical school? Do we expect them to spend time off duty to educate/train themselves?
I get that it is impractical for Olathe Kansas to train all it's police force in hostage negotiation and deescalation when most likely none of the force will ever use it but what is the alternative? We can't just bus the same negotiation team across the country every time. If we could, EPA wouldn't have its own armed servicemen, right? Also there wouldn't be a Port Authority Police Department in POrt Authority of New York and New Jersey, right?
Basically, I imagine if you wear the equipment and gear for seat, you must be trained for it and we'll qualified in it. If not, then don't carry the gear. No?
If only we all had access to the Secret Service. Lots of modern games make use of P2P behind the scenes (e.g. for voice chat), which means that maladjusted script kiddie I just sniped already has my IP and might decide to forego DDoSing me and skip straight to calling in a hostage situation at my home address. Being able to easily resolve a concrete address from an IP is certainly a bigger deal than being able to determine its ISP.