Francis Chardo, the Dauphin county district attorney, said that forthcoming charges will include attempted murder, terrorism, attempted arson and aggravated assault.
According to the article, terrorism is one of the likely charges.
Some of them are popular enough to have 100k concurrent viewers. Some have had multiple stalkers and threats on their lives. When they go out and do IRL streams, they have to hire security. Some of them have contracts for stupid amounts of money. we're talking 9 digits.
The average person may not know who they are, but all it takes is one coincidence to put their lives at risk.
M.2, not to my knowledge, but I know they make PCIE cards with RAM slots on them. LTT had a video on that some years ago, I imagine newer models have probably been made since then.
There's also a difference between some 100 viewer Andy on Twitch, and someone like Kai Cenat or Pokimane or xQc. Those are some recognizable names and faces, and they take precautions about this stuff. They have assistants and other staff that nobody would ever recognize.
Streamers often have food dropped off at their door, so even if the delivery driver knew of the streamer they were delivering to, they wouldn't know that's who they're dropping the food off for.
Big streamers are paranoid enough to take extra security measures to prevent anyone from knowing where they live, and usually move away pretty quickly if someone finds out.
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