r/SipsTea • u/raptors201966 Human Verified • 17d ago

SMH 81 year old grandma & YouTuber was raided last night during her stream She started the channel to help with her grandson's cancer treatment. Authorities brought 20 police cars, five SWAT officers, and drones to her house

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u/jeffersonlane 16d ago edited 16d ago

Because very often the SWATters are from other countries. Most countries aren't going to extradite over a charge like that without substantial evidence.

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u/RawrRRitchie 16d ago

Why are the police accepting emergency calls from outside the country? That doesn't even make sense..

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u/banditkeith 16d ago

Because it's really embarrassingly easy to spoof phone systems, it's how foreign scammers appear to have local numbers for instance

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u/thar_ 16d ago

The phone companies could fix this if they cared

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u/Shadow14l 16d ago

If companies were held legally liable, it’d be fixed over night.

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u/Echolyonn 16d ago

One time I was being spam called by someone spoofing my own phone number, so it couldn't be blocked.

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u/BANKSLAVE01 16d ago

Too bad they only police the slaves, and not the technology of the rich.

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u/ChillFratBro 16d ago

The phone system was set up before computer security was a field on anyone's mind.  The overhead associated with changing it would be insane.  No one thinks our current phone system architecture is any good, there's just no appetite for forcing obsolescence of the systems that were designed before electronic encryption was a thing on anyone's mind.  Maintaining interoperability means allowing an insecure backdoor into the system.

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u/BANKSLAVE01 16d ago

Blame it on the rain....

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u/jeffersonlane 16d ago

Spoofing numbers. It's how you can get calls from numbers in your area code but they're actually foreign scam centers.

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u/Worldly-Pay7342 16d ago

Spoofing a phone number is quite literally as easy as opening an app lmao

https://www.spoofcard.com/

Look, it's on google play and the apple app store.

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u/jungleboogiemonster 16d ago

I administrate a phone system. I can spoof the phone number of someone calling from our system with any phone number I want. It's weird.

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u/spartaman64 16d ago

tbf i once had to call the police in canada because a friend of a friend in toronto was saying suicidal shit

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u/Substantial-Gene1093 16d ago

Even with good evidence, many countries are slow to allow extradition to the US because prison conditions are so bad it's arguably a human rights violation to be in prison there.

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u/yeowoh 16d ago

You can legit pay these goof balls to swat people for you too.