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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 976919" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241" target="_blank">USC § 241 states:</a></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Swatting</strong> is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1" target="_blank">9-1-1</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatcher" target="_blank">dispatcher</a>) into dispatching an emergency response team.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing" target="_blank">Caller ID spoofing</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29" target="_blank">social engineering</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prank_call" target="_blank">prank call</a> and phone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking" target="_blank">phreaking</a> techniques may be combined. 911 systems (including telephony and human operators) have been tricked by calls placed from cities hundreds of miles away.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Two examples: using a service that permits people to call using a spoofed caller-id, the prankster uses the phone number of the victim, calls the police and pretends there is a hostage situation. Other possibility; prankster signs up for internet-based phone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOIP" target="_blank">VOIP</a> service in the victim's area code, signs on to the website of the VOIP provider, and registers the victim's address as theirs for 911, then calls 911 and again, misinforms the police that there is a hostage or killing taking place.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">CNN Contributor Erickson and Family Targeted in Latest 'SWATing' Attack</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><u><strong>THE NIGHT I COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED BECAUSE OF MY BLOGGING....Patterico's Pontifications</strong></u></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><u><strong></strong></u></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 976919, member: 12952"] [URL='http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/241']USC § 241 states:[/URL] [INDENT]If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; [B]Swatting[/B] is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-1-1']9-1-1[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatcher']dispatcher[/URL]) into dispatching an emergency response team. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing']Caller ID spoofing[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29']social engineering[/URL], [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prank_call']prank call[/URL] and phone [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phreaking']phreaking[/URL] techniques may be combined. 911 systems (including telephony and human operators) have been tricked by calls placed from cities hundreds of miles away. Two examples: using a service that permits people to call using a spoofed caller-id, the prankster uses the phone number of the victim, calls the police and pretends there is a hostage situation. Other possibility; prankster signs up for internet-based phone [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOIP']VOIP[/URL] service in the victim's area code, signs on to the website of the VOIP provider, and registers the victim's address as theirs for 911, then calls 911 and again, misinforms the police that there is a hostage or killing taking place. CNN Contributor Erickson and Family Targeted in Latest 'SWATing' Attack [U][B]THE NIGHT I COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED BECAUSE OF MY BLOGGING....Patterico's Pontifications [/B][/U] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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