Swatting accused an experienced hacker who abused powers, court hears

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans

The 17-year-old Barrhaven boy on trial for swatting crimes across North America was portrayed in court on Friday as an experienced hacker who abused his online powers. “I didn’t feel safe around him (on chats). He was too abusive with his power. He’d boot people off the Internet for no reason. He’d do it for fun,” an alleged victim told California police in an interview that was broadcast at trial. The boy, now 15, told police in Stockton, Calif., in April, 2014, that he only knew the accused’s ‎first name and had never seen his face on Skype. The boy said he met the accused on a Minecraft server and, after he said he was quitting his position as a permissions expert, someone first ordered $1,000 of pizza to his home and later sent in a fake 911 call to prompt a SWAT team to respond at the boy’s home. “I still to this day do not know why he snapped,” the boy told police. Testifying later in the day, the teen said he confronted the person he believed to be the accused in a call over Skype videoconferencing. “All he did was laugh maniacally. Like it didn’t matter to […]

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