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[–] 114 points 17 hours ago (30 children)

More recently, Harmel gave the victim a new phone without cellular data. However, the teenager was able to connect to Wi-Fi via the phone and used it to access the online game Among Us. The victim then seemingly used Among Us’ in-game chat function to contact another teenager in a lobby. The two exchanged social media details

Please, teach your kids how to email the cops.

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  • [–] 51 points 17 hours ago (11 children)

    I was thinking the same thing, how does she have access to Among Us and able to exchange social media contacts but not able to someway contact the police directly?

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  • [–] 23 points 13 hours ago (9 children)

    Yeah, my old phone has no sim but still has 911 capabilities. It even scrolls the message "No SIM card - emergency calls only" across the top of the phone. I think it might be the law here, all phones whether cell enabled or not have 911 access.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago (8 children)

    I was watching a movie the other day and it got me wondering... How do the movie sets prevent cell phones from actually dialing 911 when the actor needs to call them in the script.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    For 911 calls, and most calls actually, they almost never show the screen of the phone being dialled anyway. They just show the actor tapping at the phone vaguely while the camera shows them from the side or the back with an intense expression, and then suddenly they hold it up to their ear and then they act like they're talking to 911.

    And if for some reason they really do have to show the screen, they will just use a non-functional phone with a fake app or graphical effects in post-production, the same way they make ghosts and dragons appear and spaceships come crashing out of the sky, etc. A phone screen is a trivial effort to fake.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    I can't remember which show I was watching last night (tried a few of them and gave up on all cause everything is seemingly terrible nowadays).

    But I commented because that thought specifically camemto mind since I watched them dial 911 exactly on the screen and press the green dial button and see the screen switch to "calling 911" or whatever it does which is what triggered my question.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 minutes ago

    Maybe airplane mode, if not a fake app. Doing it in effects would be the same effort of recreation with way more extra work for worse results. If it matches an actual dialers modern design, rule of least effort would say airplane mode or similar. Else, fake dialer.

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  • [–] 1 point 54 minutes ago* (1 child)

    No idea if this was used for any film, but you may make your own GSM "tower". Though it needs to be powerful enough that the phone won't decide to roam to something else, and that might be a regulatory issue.

    Also could use a fake phone app. Or a fake phone...

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  • [–] 42 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    Subject: Kidnapping!

    Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a kidnapping that has me held on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    Don't all phones can call 911 even without a sim card?

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  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

    I'm teaching my kid that cops are dangerous and they should avoid them unless there is no other choice.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

    That's why he already said he's teaching his kids about avoiding the cops. ICE and other LEO's abduct people all the time, quite often extrajudiciously.

    Non cop kidnappers arguably might do it less but are inarguably less successful at it than LEO's.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    But ICE comes for you because you are on a list, not because you trustingly followed someone to their car or something. They hunt you; they don’t lure you. It doesn’t matter if you trust or distrust them; the result will be the same.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 hours ago
    1. You don't have to be on a list for ICE to predate. Most of the children weren't on lists. Most of the dead parents weren't, either.
    2. I don't understand what your trust remarks have to do with predators, but the important thing is don't trust LEO's
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