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There’s no such thing as “anonymous” texts — just texts the government can’t be bothered to trace back to their origin.
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There was the one case with the scammers in the UK using a homemade cell tower to essentially send out phishing texts directly to cell phones in an area, completely bypassing the phone company. It seems like this scare texts scenario would fit that kind of tech even better, as you only need to send out a message once to a large amount of people and you don't need to collect information in response like in a phishing scenario.
Well you can send people "SMS" messages from an email system; if you know who the carrier on that number is. usually it's [the phone number]@[their service].
it's not hard to find what the domain name for the email transfer service is, and who owns which cell phone, and they can just buy a list of phone numbers that ping off college cells under specific circumstances that would indicate they're college students.
This guy right here officer ^
I know this type of information from an IT help desk job. Medical IT. Shit gets weird in hospitals.
What, he works in marketing?
I receive spam texts from bullshit emails all the time.
Yup.
And you can have an email server in some Latin American country who doesn’t give a fuck (and why should they?) and basically create a new domain when ever you get shut down for spammy spam.
WHO!? Who could POSSIBLY be behind such a text!?!? It is beyond fathoming. There certainly isn't a correlation between education and voting lines, or else one party would surely be trying to destroy the education system and bring religion back into schools!
Anonymous my ass.
Also, political intimidation and threats of violence are terrorism, and these people should be tried as such.
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman. Guaranteed they’re behind this.
Almost certainly. How many times have they been busted for this now?
I'm gonna vote even harder
Fill in all the circle.
I trust that our college students are smart enough to see through this bullshit.
I wouldn’t have 20 years ago when I was in college. Somehow I don’t think it’s gotten better.
Really? You would trust a random text telling you that you will go to prison for participating in a cornerstone of our democracy? The internet existed 20 years ago... You really wouldn't have thought to double check?
20 years ago, you wouldn't have expected to have social media / internet help you determine whether a threat was real.
The linked CNN article has more information: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/wisconsin-voter-intimidation-text/index.html
Dang, I remember a time when the Anonymous hacking group was a force for good....
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