SWATting
n.— «SWAT officers expected to find a victim shot to death, drugs and a belligerent armed suspect when they surrounded the home of an unsuspecting couple, but found they were only a part of a false emergency call caused by a teenager who hacked into the county’s emergency response system.…Other law enforcement agencies have seen similar breaches into their 911 systems as part of a trend picked up by computer hackers in the nation called “SWATting,” Barnes said.» —“Man accused of hacking into 911″ by Salvador Hernandez Orange County Register (California) Oct. 16, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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