Michael Cohen's family doxed after Trump guilty verdict in porn star hush money case

[NanaCat]

41. Oh FFS

They have to be able to find the people first, and that is not easy to do.

Surely you realize that it's not the 80s anymore, where the cops can trace landlines to their source if they can keep the person on the line 30 seconds. That world no longer exists. Scammers can call you right now, and your caller ID will show your own bloody number as the person calling you. Do you have even the faintest realisation of the technological sophistication that takes?

To trace a call to its origin in the 21st century where the rest of us live, investigators need to get through proxies, firewalls, VPNs, crypto filters and I have no idea how many more layers of opacity bouncing off satellites and into and out of multiple countries all across the planet. Some numbers can never be traced back to their source, and if you can't find who called, guess what? Law enforcement can't arrest them. And if law enforcement can't find them, then the DOJ can't do jack about bringing them to justice.

FFS, I don't even watch the telly, but even I know the cop shows have addressed how this impedes them from finding perpetrators via phone call. The one with the flaky but brilliant blonde computer geek--Criminal Minds? That show was addressing this very issue back in the 00s, from what blared from my Mum's telly back then.

Where have you been that you think it's still the 80s with the quaint tracing of landline calls to find criminals?