If ease is the measure, we are living in a golden age of death threats. The cautious and methodical know to anonymize their browsers with Tor and to use other cloaking techniques to reduce the odds of being apprehended. Use a telephone? C’mon, phone records can be traced.Īs with so many of life’s labors, advanced technology has removed most of the work and hazard from sending cowardly messages to people to frighten them.
Cut and paste from newspaper headlines, ransom-note style? A very time- consuming project just to put the fear of death into somebody. Use a typewriter? Typewriters leave tell-tale signatures on the page by which the machine and potentially the owner can be identified.
Spell it out longhand? Good God no! Given a few leads, the boys in police forensics could compare it to other samples of your handwriting. You had to wear gloves to prevent embossing the page with incriminating fingerprints. In the old days, issuing one required a stamp, an envelope and a trip to a post box.
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