Only four years for hundreds of instances of putting people at risk of death.
Let’s see him try to swat away Bubba once he gets to prison.
The headline says he swatted himself “to look like a victim”, even though he specifically says “I swatted myself like 3 times to test my methods”.
While throwing the police off his trail may have been a beneficial (for him) side-effect, it’s not what he says the reason is. No quote from the article says that trying to “look like a victim” was part of his motive to begin with. The only line in the article that actually mentions this is a parenthetical speculation from the author.
Even though it’s minor, that sort of inconsistency in the headline feels like very irresponsible reporting. Maybe there’s other testimony in the case that backs that up; but if so, it isn’t mentioned anywhere in the article.
The sheer incompetence of a system that lets a script kiddie with a VPN hold entire cities hostage is almost poetic. 375 swats and they needed crypto tracing to catch him? Our tax dollars fund security theater while actual threats operate on cheat codes.
Imagine the Pentagon getting swatted like some suburban grandma - peak American cyber resilience. We’ve built a panopticon that only watches the wrong people, leaving actual chaos merchants to weaponize basic opsec against the very institutions claiming omniscience.
This isn’t about one edgelord with a VoIP addiction. It’s the death rattle of a system so bloated it can’t even prosecute low-hanging fruit. When the “cyber warriors” need Coinbase’s help to catch a teenager’s BTC trail, the empire’s already fallen. We’re just waiting for the servers to cool.
They only watch the wrong people — and bomb the wrong people [1] — because their purpose isn’t peace, justice, morality, to make the world a better place, improve quality of life, etc, etc.
Their purpose is to oppress the poor on behalf of the oligarchy, and generate wealth for the oligarchy in doing so.
[1] member how 16 of 19 9/11 terrorists were Saudi, but America invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?
good evening,
i’ve read a lot of your posts, they are very interesting, specially the one about venezuela.
do you really think this system is about to die?
A little OT, but I’ll entertain the question.
The system isn’t dying; it’s metastasizing. It’s not a clean collapse where something new can rise—it’s a slow, grinding decay that drags everything down with it. Venezuela is just a preview of what happens when corruption, incompetence, and overreach hit critical mass. The scaffolding remains, but it serves no one except those clinging to power.
We’re living in a world of security theater and hollow institutions. They can’t adapt because they were never designed to. Instead, they double down on control while losing grip on reality. The result? A patchwork of failing systems pretending to function.
It’s not about death—it’s about irrelevance. The question isn’t when it ends; it’s what survives the wreckage.
Some asshole swatted my neighbor. An 80 year old lady and her 55ish year old son live there. I have no idea of the motivation. I felt so bad for them. Eventually the dude was caught. I have another neighbor that’s a chronically online gamer. I always wondered if he trolled someone and the guy was trying to trace his IP and fucked the address up on the call. Poor lady was traumatized.
