• PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    You can pay a guy in another country to call in bomb threats using an untraceable VoIP number. It could reverb be a foreign adversary doing it just to stir the pot.
    Same reason we get so many spam calls and the phone companies won’t do anything about it. It could also be the CIA trying to get more privacy invading laws passed by stirring the pot.

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      10 months ago

      Nothing is untraceable, just difficult to trace. There are logs in all the points bounced between and you can follow the trail back if you find the right bit of metadata. In the case of the spam calls, the FCC is working on it, but it’s not as dire a thing as trying to kill a judge, so not too much attention is paid to any specific instance of a spam call.

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      10 months ago

      The odds are very high it was a local MAGA dumbfuck calling from his office desk phone.

      Is it possible to do it relatively untraceably? Sure. They absolutely did not do that. They are fucking idiots.