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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"'"
Don't these hackers THINK OF THE CHILDREN? ^^ ...I know, I know. :p
I can see it now, some geek hacks the new pentagon war room and hey presto some idiot goes and invades iran
I can not begin to tell you what a pain in the ass this was. You can not imagine how hard it is to tell your boss you are late for work because you are currently under siege from your the swat team. Totally messed up my morning.
But.. but.. that would be illegal.
It was a typo. I mean, Q and N are right next to each-other.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
The problem here is the illegality and absurdity of the drug war.
Yeah, That's the problem with people hacking the 911 system to dispatch SWAT teams, good call.
Sounds like something out of a Phillip Dick story where nothing is seen as being wrong with the system even if the couple were killed. Acceptable losses or some other acronymed term, until one day one of the SWAT members realizes the prank is pulled on his own family only to realize its too late for him to warn them.
At which point the cog in the machine becomes the hero in various hollywood ways and somehow joins forces with the prankster that has some far reaching political message wrapped around his pranks.
You are really blowing this out of proportion. I do this all the time, only occasionaly does someone get shot.
Get over yourself!
Posting from work?
What?
is that kid's hairdo. Yo kid, the 1987 season of Growing Pains called and wants its hair style back. This guy + this guy = this guy?
For people who do this kind of stuff.
Whitehat Grayhat Blackhat Asshat
It may be the police's / politician's own fault for having the unprotected system and bla bla bla... But when they catch the guy who did it, 5+ years in the slammer I say. That's the kind of situation when you can take the Hacker Manifesto and wipe your ass with it.
I always thought it was, "Fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
So if he got someone else to make the phony call to send SWAT to the wrong house, it would be "assault with an assault weapon by proxy by proxy"?
I am not a crackpot.
The problem is that more of our crimes today are committed by criminals.
It's usually not all that difficult to tell the difference between a police raid and a home invasion.
Yeah! Well, it took me a while, but I've gotten to the point where I don't even have to wake up to tell the difference!
Just last week I woke up to find my already splintered and duct-taped door kicked in yet again, and I'd slept right through it! I'm pretty it was the police based on what they took and what they didn't take.
See, I've gotten to the point where I keep two packages handy whenever I go to bed: one with ID, a personal statement, some donuts, coffee, milk, etc., and the other with a few valuables and convincing amount of cash I round up before I go to bed. I give the appropriate one to whoever breaks in that night. I used to mess up *all* the time -- and while, sure, the thugs appreciated the donuts, they'd always want the valuables, too, even though they'd get nicer about it if the donuts were good. And you could see the police really had their feelings hurt when they thought I was trying to buy them off, and nobody wants that.
But I've gotten it right the last 15 times -- even last week, when I woke up in the morning to find out I'd slept through it all. The donuts were gone and the valuables were still there! I'm looking forward to the time when this will all be sorted out and I can just buy myself another door and stop spending all this money on donuts, duct tape, and miscellaneous valuables, but in the meanwhile, I'm glad I've adapted and learned to cope before doing anything really stupid like overreacting when someone breaks in.
Tweet, tweet.
Good thing he only called 911, instead of having a 3 hour call to the Hott Chixx hotline.
Scenario 1:
Dude: "I did not call 911 and tell them to barge in here with guns."
Wife: "I believe you."
Cop: "Ok, we won't shoot you."
Scenario 2:
Dude: "I did not call the Hott Chixx hotline."
Wife: "I want a divorce."
Qwest: "Pay your phone bill!"
It makes me smile that the asshole that made the call is 19 years old and just old enough not to be tried as a minor.
Send an anonymous letter, possibly with a fake return address.
Isn't the point to NOT have SWAT teams show up at random addresses?
People ignore such reports, as has been proven time and time again.
He didn't put anyone's lives in danger. The 911 center did, by using systems which can be spoofed by any fucktard with a cell phone.
[sarcasm] 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. We can rest easier tonight knowing that pure, kind-hearted souls such as this young man are out there to protect us from these rogue paramilitary teams prowling our streets. [/sarcasm]
Only because american cops are dumb hicks who think that it's okay to shoot people while they're working
Well, you can't really expect them to go around shooting people on their days off, can you?
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
>Every time an officer sees someone, 'Police' will be the first word out of his mouth.
:)
This may have something to do with the divorce rate for cops:
[sultry] "Hey, honey, look what I put on for you."
"Police, wow."
[confused] "Huh?"
"Police, I like it."
[hurt] "Knock that off!" {*sniff*}
"Police, I can't."
[angry] "Goodbye."
hawk
Yes, but the question here "is our children learning?".
The movies I watch say so
Hey, you just gave me a great idea. I'll use this return address:
G.W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500
They'll never realize it's fake!
GLaDOS for President 2016! "Well here we are again. It's always such a pleasure." -- GLaDOS, 2011
StoneCypher is Full of BS