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Comment by dantiberian | Hacker News Reader

This article implies that the access of the old server was linked to the SWAT raid.

"Not so coincidentally, an old personal server had a database accessed using old forum credentials obtained from the incident last year."

It is a little odd how they praise the SWAT team in the first paragraph, then imply they hacked into a server in the second paragraph.

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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 the hacker.

I don't think "swatting" is a common enough term to assume that everyone knows what it means. I certainly didn't.

exactly. How of often does it actually happen?

I don't have stats for you, but it's been written about before:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/23/4253014/swatting-911-prank...

also:

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"...

IIRC, 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.

I 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.

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