[VoIP] Teenage Hacker Is Blind, Brash and in the Crosshairs of the FBI

[ikjtel]

One of our very own is quoted in this article...

Hopefully the idiotic yahoo-mail code won't mangle the
URL, which is

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/02/blind_hacker?currentPage=all

"...A federal Joint Terrorism Task Force would later
conclude that Gasper had been the victim of a new type
of nasty hoax, called "swatting," that was spreading
across the United States. Pranksters were phoning
police with fake murders and hostage crises, spoofing
their caller IDs so the calls appear to be coming from
inside the target's home. The result: police SWAT
teams rolling to the scene, sometimes bursting into
homes, guns drawn........."


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