Yeah, I've always looked at the extreme reaction authorities have to threats of violence as a pretty significant DOS risk. I'm surprised this isn't more common.
Neither judgement changes the fact that the reaction itself definitely makes DOS possible, of course.
I imagine the reason it isn't more common is that the punishment for making terroristic threats tends to be quite high (especially against airports), so you need to be very certain you won't get caught doing it.
I’m also not so worried about SWATting being possible - I want a ratio of times where the extreme response was warranted versus unwarranted.
> By 2019, there were an estimated 1,000 swatting incidents domestically each yeay
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-formed-national-dat...
In any case, I think we can agree that militarized police breaching through a door and going in with guns drawn like they're going to assassinate Bin Laden all due to a phone call is dumb and shouldn't happen
They should send a drone to look into the window, or turn one of the dozen devices in each room into a microphone, or perform any kind of other investigation first before they do that.
The surveillance in the US is too good and the penalties are too steep. If you try this, you'd be looking at 20 years in federal prison.
This incident also serves as a counter to the "security theater" argument some make against the TSA.
The TSA catches most bomb, knife, and gun threats and makes the risk of getting caught too large to attempt.
Hijackings used to be common in the US. Not anymore.
The data speaks for itself: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240246/aircraft-hijacki...
For paywall purposes: https://imgur.com/a/4txjjyF
Seems effective to me.
They might not do that for you and I but I think at the state level they have more tools. Of course the person might be in a foreign country but then it's really don't let far away foreigners call in bomb threats.