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UK Suspect Arrested In Connection With PSN/XBL 'Lizard Squad' Attacks
Dave Knott writes UK Police have arrested an 18-year-old man over involvement in the cyber-attacks on Sony's PlayStation Network and Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming services over Christmas, for which the Lizard Squad hacking group claimed responsibility. The man was arrested Friday in Southport, England, on suspicion of computer hacking, threats to kill and swatting. Computers and other electronic devices were seized during the arrest by officers from two UK cybercrime units working in conjunction with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. A spokesman said that police were still in the early stages of an investigation working closely with the FBI to identify further people involved in the attacks.
While he certainly screwed up my after-Christmas plans, I'm not quite ready to have him test new lethal injection drugs in Florida yet...
An 18-year old non-violent offender should get an option to demonstrate the three R's of the criminal defense system. Remorse, recant, restitution.
He needs a felony charge (that matches his crimes) that, upon successful completion of jail/probation/community-service can be commuted to a misdemeanor.
calling emergency services with fake call outs puts peoples lives at risk. The XBL and PSN part was just a mean spirited low scumbag act, the rest is what he should be in Jail for.
An 18-year old non-violent offender should get an option to demonstrate the three R's of the criminal defense system. Remorse, recant, restitution.
It seems that he made calls to the US police to get SWAT teams to someone's house. That is most definitely not "non-violent". It's something that can easily get someone killed, and that is very likely to inflict violence on someone, and that violence or killing is the desired effect.
Swatting
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
Swatting is attempted murder.
You are welcome on my lawn.
-1 disagree. swatting is a particularly dangerous type of prank call in which a swat team kicks in your door and carry live weapons. This is different than typical prank calls where you send the fire trucks to somebody's house. also, bomb threats are different than prank calls. Man, you had a messed up childhood.
"18-year-old man" sounds about right, because he will likely go to pound-you-in-the-ass prison.
So you can't even bother to read the full summary let alone the article? The arrest included charges for Swatting and threats to kill.
really you think the first responders to armed sieges or those on rampages with guns should be a couple of cops if their is a SWAT available? you think it is best to get an extra couple of ill prepared people killed first to make sure the threat is real? A SWAT team is far better trained to correctly evaluate a threat than the average cop. Chances are if cops were being sent in first in these situations then we probably would have more fatalities.
Where does it say that? That article is about someone completely different, not this arrest.