Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid 754
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"'"
...with two sleeping toddlers (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stupid & dangerous (Score:3, Funny)
Jerk.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stupid & dangerous (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Drugs (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, That's the problem with people hacking the 911 system to dispatch SWAT teams, good call.
Phillip Dick story? (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Oh spare me (Score:1, Funny)
Get over yourself!
Re:Good grief (Score:5, Funny)
The real crime here (Score:4, Funny)
New hacker category (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Good grief (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Proxy (Score:3, Funny)
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"?
Re:Good grief (Score:5, Funny)
I'm slow, but I get it right every time now! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Forged CID (Score:1, Funny)
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!"
Re:Good grief (Score:3, Funny)
Not a minor (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good grief (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good grief (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't the point to NOT have SWAT teams show up at random addresses?
Re:Good grief (Score:2, Funny)
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]
Re:Good grief (Score:3, Funny)
Well, you can't really expect them to go around shooting people on their days off, can you?
Re:Stupid & dangerous (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Good grief (Score:1, Funny)
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G.W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500
They'll never realize it's fake!
Re:Good grief (Score:4, Funny)