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Do you seriously don't know what "swatting" means? Somebody called SWAT on them, while he hacked into that machine. Nowhere was said that a SWAT operative was t
by superpatosainz 13y ago
Do you seriously don't know what "swatting" means? Somebody called SWAT on them, while he hacked into that machine. Nowhere was said that a SWAT operative was the hacker.
- gregory144 13y agoI don't think "swatting" is a common enough term to assume that everyone knows what it means. I certainly didn't.
- paulhauggis 13y agoexactly. How of often does it actually happen?
- lbotos 13y agoI don't have stats for you, but it's been written about before: http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4253014/swatting-911-prank-wont-stop-hackers-celebrities http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4253014/swatting-911-prank... also: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/september/the-crime-of-swatting-fake-9-1-1-calls-have-real-consequences/the-crime-of-swatting-fake-9-1-1-calls-have-real-consequences http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/september/the-crime-of-... Seem's to be a relatively new thing in the ever-escalating war for the "lulz"...
- tinco 13y agoIIRC, the term swatting stems from the eighties, perhaps even earlier by phreakers and such. It could be that it's more popular now, since there are more hackers/douchebags on the internet now than there were then.
- dantiberian 13y agoI know what swatting means but they didn't say they were 'swatted' in the post, only that SWAT turned up. Reading it that they were swatted makes more sense but the post was ambiguous and it seemed to make more sense the other way.