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The Griffin -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for Griffin. Caller ID follies and SWAT teams, hacking PBXThere was a case of a guy tricking a 911 system to believe he calls from another place, and then social-engineering the police to send a SWAT unit to the premises.
A lot of possibilities along these lines opens when we take in account the often poor security (e.g. default or weak passwords) in today's low-cost PBX systems. Another trick with hacking PBX is in issuing calls from them to paid lines and cashing in potentially fairly fat profits. |
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Why do people do this? (sigh)
Update, calling a police unit to swarm a victim is known as swatting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
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