Just two days ago there was a story about FinCEN requiring more information to be gathered and stored about the owners of LLCs, and the comment section had quite some discussion from people shocked that anyone would feel a need for privacy in home records. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304312

How do we stop swatting? Maybe improved technical means for identifying false calls, maybe better judgment by law enforcement of what situations are dangerous, maybe stronger investigation and punishment of the callers.

But what can I do right now to keep me at lower risk of swatting? I can go the extreme privacy route, form shell corporations to own my assets without publicly associating them to my identity, and stripping out my info from as many data brokers as possible. That's hard, but it's doable for the upper middle class like many of us in tech.

I would love for it not to be necessary, and I'd love for these measures to be more accessible to people with less money than me. But I'm gonna keep taking these measures wherever I can.