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just_another_person@lemmy.worldBanned to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Anonymous texts threaten college students with prison time if they vote: report

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Anonymous texts threaten college students with prison time if they vote: report

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just_another_person@lemmy.worldBanned to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Voting rights groups are sounding the alarm about anonymous text messages allegedly sent to college students in Wisconsin, threatening them with prison if they vote, according to CNN."The unsolicited text, sent from at least one 262- number to cell phones of people in their early 20s on University o...
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  • reddig33@lemmy.world
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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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      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.

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        I receive spam texts from bullshit emails all the time.

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          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.

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            Server? In Latin America?? Jajajajaja

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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.

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    Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman. Guaranteed they’re behind this.

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      Almost certainly. How many times have they been busted for this now?

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    I trust that our college students are smart enough to see through this bullshit.

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      I wouldn’t have 20 years ago when I was in college. Somehow I don’t think it’s gotten better.

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        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?

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          You also have to consider a twenty year old and just running with the possibility. They don’t care if it’s necessarily true. They don’t have enough experience to know it’s probably not true.

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            We are really failing our children then.

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        20 years ago, you wouldn’t have expected to have social media / internet help you determine whether a threat was real.

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          We had real news back then though, and many of us watched it. We knew Bush was a dangerous moron who wanted wars. And we knew Nader was a spoiler, but enough of my idiot classmates still voted against Gore. I was dumbfounded when they would admit it with a shrug. So much so that it has still stuck with me to this day.

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    I’m gonna vote even harder

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      Fill in all the circle.

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    The linked CNN article has more information: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/15/politics/wisconsin-voter-intimidation-text/index.html

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    deleted by creator

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    Dang, I remember a time when the Anonymous hacking group was a force for good…

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      Are you actually dumb enough to think they are the same group

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