Swatting started in the gaming world and it’s coming for the rest of us

_Remember ding-dong ditch? _ _Kids would ring a doorbell — maybe numerous times in a single afternoon — and then run away. That childish prank has given way to something called swatting. Someone calls the police with a hoax report of some violent crime underway, and officers respond, appearing on the doorstep of some

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