They need to spy on us but they can't fix the call line?
"SWAT teams deployed in 911 fraud
NEW YORK - People across the country have become victims of a new kind of telephone fraud that exploits a weakness in the way the 911 system handles calls from Internet-based phone services, according to an Associated Press investigation.
The attacks - called "swatting" because armed police SWAT teams usually respond - are virtually unstoppable, and the investigation by the Associated Press found that budget-strapped 911 centers are essentially defenseless without an overhaul of their computer systems.
The AP examined hundreds of pages of court documents and law-enforcement transcripts, listened to audio of "swatting" calls, and interviewed two dozen security analysts, investigators, defense lawyers, victims, and perpetrators.
In November, a teenage hacker from Worcester pleaded guilty to a five-month swatting spree including a bomb threat and report of a gunman that caused two schools to be evacuated.
WTF? If they can't find these guys, then what is all the tyranny for?
In a multistate case prosecuted by federal authorities in Dallas, eight people were charged with orchestrating up to 300 "swatting" calls to victims they met on telephone party chat lines. A similar case was reported in Salinas, Calif., where officers surrounded an apartment where a call had come in claiming men with assault rifles were trying to break in.
Unlike calls that come from landline phones, which are registered to a fixed physical address and display that on 911 dispatchers' screens, calls coming from people's computers, or even calls from landline or cellphones that are routed through spoofing services, could appear to be originating from anywhere.
Scores of Caller ID spoofing services have sprung up, offering to disguise callers' origins for a fee. Customers pay for a certain number of minutes, punch in a PIN code, and specify whom they're calling and what they'd like the Caller ID to display. Spoofing Caller ID is legal.
So what is the problem, government? Go find 'em!!!!
