Slog - Comments on I've Got A Knife! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/ive_got_a_knife Turns out the reported cocaine overdose, assault weapon wound in the shoulder and hostage situation in Lake Forest, CA, this March didn't actually require a rifle-bearing SWAT Team response: As officers swarmed the home with assault rifles, dogs and a helicopter, a Lake Forest couple and their two toddlers inside their home slept unsuspectingly. Seems a Mukilteo teen's 911 hack prompted a siege-style descent upon a suburban family--why couldn't you just steal identities like the rest of your peers? But what's alarming about the story, now in the news as a result of the 19-year-old's arrest last week, isn't... Copyright 2008 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:20:22 -0800 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:22:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Totally Unrelated Question Does anybody know if the social network known as Tribe.net has gone out of business?

]]> Totally Unrelated Question http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/ive_got_a_knife#c827339 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/ive_got_a_knife#c827339 News Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:46:48 -0800 Comment by Ben From the article, it sounds like it could have been something as simple as spoofing his caller ID.

]]> Ben http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/ive_got_a_knife#c827394 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/ive_got_a_knife#c827394 News Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:58:16 -0800 Comment by Ben Okay, apparently he was using TTY (text telephone - used by the deaf) systems to relay calls to 911 to get back at people he thought were cheating in online games against him.

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]]> Ben http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/ive_got_a_knife#c827431 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/ive_got_a_knife#c827431 News Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:22:55 -0800