Sunday, June 10, 2012

SWAT-ting bloggers

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/302174/who-will-protect-freedom-blog-m...

Chambliss and Marchant called specific attention to one terrifying tactic against these bloggers: SWAT-ting. These hoaxes occur “when a perpetrator contacts local police to report a violent incident at a target’s home.” Callers disguise their true identities and locations in order to provoke SWAT and police forces into descending on targets’ homes in a high-firepower response that is potentially deadly.

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