19 y/o hacks 911 system, sends SWAT team to unsuspecting house

[thewayne]

No one was hurt, but it could have easily ended in blood. They've caught the perp, and he's facing some pretty stiff charges. Of course, there's the security hole exploit that let him get into the system and doing what he did, but there are other ways he could have alerted authorities to the problem.

http://www.ocregister.com/news/home-emami-county-1894171-ellis-system

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/17/197221

Comments

[silveradept]

I don't know why someone would do something like that. In that case, there could have been people killed. And that would have been very bad for the person who sent the false alarm.

Not very encouraging that the emergency response system got hacked, either.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Not very encouraging that the 911 system was accessible from the internet in the first place!

[silveradept]

That, too. I wonder how he got in - maybe there's some sort of Internet app running that shows people the presence of fire trucks or something?