12: Swatting: Terrorism for Children

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I couldn’t have done the story on Obnoxious without the diligent reporting of the New York Times Magazine on this issue. They interviewed B A Finley at length in 2015 as part of a larger article on swatting, which you can read here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html?module=inline

Brian Krebs’ post about being swatted:https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for-cowards/

SWAuTistic’s tweets the night of the Wichita incident:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/swatutistic.png

The Reply All episode on swatting has some good audio from actual twitch streams of cops:https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ive-killed-people-and-i-have-hostages

And the Seattle PD have an opt-in registry for people who think they’re going to be swatted:https://www.pcgamer.com/seattle-police-launch-opt-in-registry-system-to-help-prevent-swatting/

At one point I say that 80% of small towns in America now have swat teams, up from 20% 40 years ago. I think it sounds more like I said “4 years ago” so I'm just noting that here! 🙇