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Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid
An anonymous reader writes "The Orange County Register reports that a 19 year old from Washington state broke into the Orange County California 911 emergency system. He randomly selected the name and address of a Lake Forest, California couple and electronically transferred false information into the 911 system. The Orange County California Sheriff's Department's Special Weapons and Tactics Team was immediately sent to the home of a couple with two sleeping toddlers. The SWAT team handcuffed the husband and wife before deciding it was a prank. Says the article, 'Other law enforcement agencies have seen similar breaches into their 911 systems as part of a trend picked up by computer hackers in the nation called "SWATting"'"
Because I would so be going there for finding this hilariously funny.
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This young hero has shown great courage today. I think we should all commend his patriotic efforts to improve our police services and protect the public good.
Don't be fucking stupid. Nobody is calling this guy a hero, including me. His motivations are irrelevant. Lock him up if you want -- it doesn't solve the problem. FIXING THE SYSTEM will solve the problem. Had he not identified the flaw, someone else would have, with potentially even more serious consequences. This is not an ethical question, it is a practical one.
If SWAT shows up at your house, if you really haven't done anything wrong, and if you resist arrest, then I hope you get shot, to get you the hell out of the gene pool. Paranoia is one of the most pervasive and damaging things to a democratic republic, and the last thing I want are citizens fucking with the cops because they spent too much time reading blogs and think they live in an Orwellian society. The day occam's razor starts taking heads, I'm cheerleading. We need some goddamned natural selection for intelligence, and this seems as good a way as any, to me.
If you've never had the cops try to bust you for something you didn't do, then don't even bother to respond, because I've been there, and I responded like an adult. That's probably why I didn't even get sore handcuff wrists, much less shot. You keep your voice low, you ask what's happening, you cooperate, and you say "after I'm handcuffed, please show me the warrant."
If you can't handle that, I don't want you breeding. Lock and load.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
I've actually been through this. You can tell me how hard it is to figure out the situation until you're blue in the face, but I've been there, and it actually isn't hard to figure out at all, even when you've done absolutely nothing wrong. (In fact, if you've done nothing wrong, you're facing 20 people whose vests are printed "POLICE" in extremely visible yellow, and you still can't figure it out, then maybe there's a second reason to remove you from the breeding population.)Yeah, I've been there. Have you? Are you maybe trying to preach something you don't actually know about? Here's a quick refresher on adrenaline. Step 1: notice gun flavor in mouth. Step 2: crap pants. Step 3: cooperate. Step 4: survive. If you're feeling something muzzle shaped against your tongue, evolution kicks in and reminds you to sit still and use the power of terror to sit still.It turns out that you can't actually not respond. They're not freezing you in carbonite, nor are they catching you in a time dilation device. Don't confuse "enough time to formulate a prosaic essay" with "not grabbing a gun." Sitting still is a response, and you can do that with a gun pointed at you. Please stop telling me that what I've done to survive isn't possible. You haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about, because you've never been closer to police action than NBC primetime. Ignorant soapboxing is only annoying when it's in a crowd of neophytes. When you tell someone who's been there that they're wrong about how a situation you've never been through actually works, you cross into the realm of offensive.
What amazes me is that I believe you actually think you know better than someone who's been through it. How you function in society is a mystery to me.Yeah. And if you do it, you don't die. If you reach for a gun, you do. What part of that is complicated for you? Sit still, shut up, and let the cops sort it out. That's all you have to do. I hope you figure that out before an authority figure ever deals with you. They walked out of my house in under ten minutes, apologizing, telling me the city would pay for my door.
I hope you don't get shot for your unwillingness to behave.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
I will absolutely put the boy in jail!make other person in danger. But it still show the officers didn't investigate it before making decision. Just put the hackers and the SWAT in jail.