Just install a Russian locale on your computer to prevent malicious programs even starting and get on with your day because it's the truth.
Snowden is a free man in 2026 despite the United States of America very much wanting to put him in jail.
>they could do the hard job of combining leads and working with appropriate agencies to maybe find and prevent these things over time
At least in the U.S., everyone will cry government overreach and no one will fund it. In other countries, they should probably just ban U.S. platforms unless they're reachable and actually resolve these type of problems.
Try that and see your champagne exports be tarriffed with 100% in no time.
I wonder why such common sense laws don't exist and who is preventing them from being introduced and passed despite wide public support in general?
The problem with a phone number you suggest is that it will get spammed and abused with fraudulent imposters too (the complete and utter destruction of trust in phone calls and text messages should also be corrected by the government, but that's a different topic).
Practically speaking, there is zero chance that the USA would extradite someone to Iran, even if they weren't currently at war with them. Whether they did anything about it would probably depend on exactly what the situation was - there's a big of difference between targeted IRGC or defence systems and ransomwaring an Iranian hospital or scamming random citizens.
Where they'd probably get you is if you tried to monetise it, and get stolen/extorted cryptocurrencies (or whatever) into your bank account. But that could easily fall under tax evasion laws rather than computer misuse ones, because they'd be a lot easier to prove in court.
https://www.wired.com/story/p4x-north-korea-internet-hacker-...
So hostile countries should be fair game for Americans who want a side-hustle. Plenty of Russian targets that could be profitable.
You won't hear back from them, though. But, at least for US citizens (and possibly for anyone?), this is as far as I know the closest thing there is to an "Internet 911".
You might. (I have.) They were able to get a wire sent to a fraudster reversed. (Not my wire.)
I presume more countries have this, not sure about the US though (CISA maybe? CERT/CC?). CERT is the overarching org that manages local agencies like this Dutch NCSC. Though I am not sure if and how easy it is, globally, to report incidents.
It's basically impossible to catch suspects because they are either smart enough to cover their tracks very well, or (more often) live in countries whose governments don't care about their citizens (even pay them for) scamming westerners.
And no, number spoofing isn't an excuse either. We literally solved the much harder problem of email spoofing already. There are, what, 3 carrier networks in all of US? And they cannot do with each other what DMARC did for the hundreds of thousands disjoint organizations that comprise the internet? Please.
Absolutely true, but droning their data centers might have some policy repercussions.
I have posted about this before. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191971
I'd advise that you think long and hard about the consequences of the current system before saying the alternative is worse.
We have that in Europe and the world has not fallen apart. On top of that, we don't have even close to the scale of problems with scammers that the US has. I won't deny we don't have scammers because we absolutely have them, but they are far from the scourge they are in the US.
> This is on par with being unable to open a bank account if the capability is matured.
The secret is... we have constitutionally protected rights. Unless you do not pay your bills, your phone line will not get disconnected. And same for bank accounts - every European has the right to a basic banking account, even if you are a target of foreign sanctions [1].
[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/konto-eugh-usa-sank...
I wonder why that is? I dont give the numbers out. That's why. Whenever a store says "do you gave a number with us" I say I don't have a cell phone. If they can plainly see I do have a cellphone, I add, "for that."
The second part is shopping at stores that dont tie prices to your having given them a number.
US was so angry about "unfair" tariffs why are they not angry about criminals stealing from Americans?
Wonder if they’re effective in going after reports. I’d still report to IC3/FBI/powers that be, too. Just in case someone somewhere has the resources to do something… perhaps a high hope
secondary is the effort asymmetry between spinning up one of these scams (near 0 effort) and catching/prosecuting these scams (big effort, astronomical cost)
406 MHz is pretty close [1]. If you have a radio that screams on that channel, chances are the nearest search-and-rescue operation will at least be notified.
911 is for emergencies. I don’t think the global 911 service would give any attention to a LinkedIn scam.
Well, that plus their 50 nuclear warheads and continued ICBM development, amongst other things.