It's no fun if you swat somebody and don't brag about it afterwards on Twitter/IRC/whatever which will lead authorities straight to them like it has most other criminals.
Which gets me to an interesting theory of how the cyber security field really resembles an ecosystem not unlike what is found in nature. For the most part, a lot of what we call the bad guys are just dumb people who get caught, as you said because they likely can't help themselves from bragging about it. They pulled of a "goof" and think it's funny, many times likely not even considering the criminal nature of the act. All of these people who pull of these exploits (swatting is just an exploit that involves the unauthorized use of law enforcement instead of a kernel) and do so in a rather large and obvious way illicit immune responses. Many hundreds of responses with no one event causing significant harm to the total ecosystem. It's our jobs in the cyber security community to react to these and develop ways to stop them before the inevitable "big one happens," in this case the mass swatter who remains anonymous because they are disciplined, but who also has at their disposal a rudimentary AI system connected to an Asterisk IVR server that can make large volumes of automated swatting calls, causing the US emergency response system to grind to a halt.
This is where there is a very fine line between tackling exploitation via the implementation of technical controls and legal controls. Because the Internet is global, I'm of the mind-set that controlling it via legislative controls has long since past, therefore we'd better be looking for technical solutions before someone exploits the system en masse to cripple a nation.
In first grade was given a bunch of tests and determined I had a "grade 12 reading level" whatever that means. I was sent to one of those so-called child prodigy schools but had no interest in anything they were teaching me. Instead I would disassemble every electronic box in the school and hack around with it. They kicked me out of that school for doing nothing the entire time except taking apart electronics and returned me to the public system. First day, when we received our texts for the year I'd read through the entire text on the weekend and do all the exercises. Then I'd just slack off all year, usually only showing up to do the tests and weekly quizzes while spending the rest of my time hanging out with the other delinquents in my school who never went to class. This worked fine until about Grade 10, when I decided to not even bother reading the textbooks on the first weekend of school anymore and just didn't show up or do any work at all. I was solely interested in hanging out with the crazy STS chatboard goths and IRC hackers I befriended who all partied at this guy's warehouse downtown everyday, which I got away with for about 8 months until one day I forgot to intercept the mail and phone calls from my school and my parents discovered I wasn't even going anymore.
My routine was to get up and walk to school, attend homeroom to show I was actually there then just take off to go downtown to said hacker/drug dealer's warehouse. There was always a ton of people there it was a defacto hackspace and party house. I learned more hanging around those people for a few months than I did all of high school. When my parents gave me an ultimatum I decided to go squat with a bunch of street punks and just hang around the hackerspace all day.
I probably would've been satisfied going to some kind of engineering or compsci program after school if it had existed at the time. I liked hanging out with my friends in high school and was glad I still went to be social but it would've been great if school was only a few hours, and the rest of the day I could have pursued my interests in electrical engineering at a non institutionalized type environment. Hanging with my friends was fun in school between and after classes but everything else about it felt like prison. Somebody you don't elect hands you arbitrary rules to follow and you just end up feeling trapped. I'm sure plenty of other kids don't mind high school for a few hours a day but would much rather spend the bulk of their time learning something else they're actually interested in. I have no idea how this can be accomplished but a full day slogging through half a chapter in a textbook on a subject you have zero passion about isn't it.
There already is a long term UBI scheme in Kenya's poorest region around Lake Turkana if anybody wants to see what the desperate poor do with the money.
There was also that BES service Data Locking corp (a.k.a. BeStealth) hosted in Costa Rica that shilled it's "unbreakable encryption" to crime groups which the FBI remotely broke into and snatched all the keys.
Another way into BES is of course via stupidity, such as Nicola Nero the crime boss police caught a few years ago in Ontario who had written his password on a memo and left it beside his BlackBerry phone because he kept forgetting it. They busted a global mafia ring from that one mistake.
Impossible to get steady ingredients due to the embargo and low incomes, most restaurants I ate at there would make do with whatever they could secure for that week.
Clinton's FOIA emails are full of Soros literally giving orders to her and other reps. Use Wikileaks archive to read them/search for Soros.
He's also bought electronic voting corps and managed to get them into primaries like Utah. There were all kinds of shenanigans with them recently like denial of service to some voters.
They built thousands of tiny self contained units in my city and they're all on AirBnB for $125+/night. The problem is foreign buyers speculating on all new housing and either keeping them vacant to park money or renting for short term only.
I know we don't like to apply laws to company's, but that's generally illegal in most areas even if it's generally ignored. Still, if you can profitably produce such buildings then just keep building the demand for housing is finite.
