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Anti-SWATting script

2022-05-09 17:23:06.738849+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Apparently the volunteers who run An Archive of Our Own (AO3) and Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) are under attack from the usual suspects, and, based on my own experience with G*m*rG*t* and the like, I'm saving off this Twitter thread with scripts to use with your local police department about the possibility of getting SWATted and how to avoid SWATting

If you are now, or ever have been at any point in the last 14 years have been, an #ao3/#otw volunteer under your wallet name, you should IMMEDIATELY AND WITHOUT ANY DELAY call your police non-emergency number and arrange anti-SWAT precautions.

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