Blind Phone ‘Swatter’ Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking

Good Job Spamming.

Lupus_Yonderboy

whatever. fuck the pseudo military police.

revblindgary

@BeFrugalNotCheap: Very nice, Ike.

revblindgary

@BeFrugalNotCheap: The girl didn't AGREE to anything. She was coerced. Hence why the manager's boyfriend was convicted of sexual assault.

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JessicaAiPhone

@!

JessicaAiPhone

@Idiot

JessicaAiPhone

@Pope John Peeps II: I have no clue how they found me. I wore a disguise. I had fake glasses on and a mustache.

The investigator IDed your dog.

D'oh!

@cruzer555: Why? I'm all for equal opportunities for all regardless of disabilities. He should not be deprived of experiencing prisons first hand just because he is blind.

theimmc

Messing with the law... uh.. no.
war-dialing??..Phreaking is so last decade.
now wardriving is more up do date.

jncarlos

@Duckspwn: +1 for a cleveland steamer reference.

Zanzan42

Let's hope they keep him in there the entire 11 years. By age 30, maybe he will have the maturity to live in society again.

lol, check out the Department of Justice's release on the matter:
[www.usdoj.gov]

Aaron Curry

@Temperature: He's blind! I can only imagine how sad that would be, he probably just wanted something to do that doesn't require eyes. I'm not defending him, what he did is wrong and bad, but seriously! Maybe put him on probation with no access to phones or something!

@Nick: I used to run a cool phreak back in the mid-80's where I would find a phone with a paper clip port and dial into the pentagon's mainframe. Back then they were experimenting with tachyon-based communications for real-time dialogue across the planet w/o having to rely on space based satellites. Well, part of the sub-routines was resulting in tachyon beams being spontaneously emitted. I managed to hack into the mainframe before it was discovered and shut down. Oh, but what fun it was. I would call random "points" (IE: phone numbers) in 2016 and claim that a dozen pizzas from a then de-funct pizzaria were on their way. Or prank call people in 2028 and say the location they were in was the site of a mass murder, etc. It all fell apart when I tried to get stock quotes and sports stats. The laws of probability can be harsh and bad things began to happen. Before I was detained by government officials I already knew that by 2042 that traditional phone numbers would not exist and that a persons DNA sequence would be their "number" from the cradle to the grave via various implants. One weird aspect of post 2042 was that most habitats were reduced to "VR pods" wherein a person would spend %80 of their existence. I caught terms like "synth-food" and "One Body, One mind" and "The ethernet is purging, please re-connect now". Anyways, I've probably said too much.

@tande04:
Same here. Reminds me of that guy they arrested who would call random businesses and pretend to be upper management and demand employees do ridiculous things such as pick up another employee and carry them a few feet, shout out embarrassing phrases, etc. In fact, he was the one that called a Mcdonalds claiming that one of the female employees was suspected of theft. He then instructed that STUPID manager make that employee strip naked and do jumping jacks and while she was out of the office the girl agreed to perform sexual acts with the managers boyfriend. All this because the manager was too much of a dumb ass to question the voice on the other end of the line and/or tell them to get a life and hang up. It was'nt 'till one some old timer walked in and basically said "What the FUCK?" and put a stop to everything then called the police.

@lostarchitect: Is he in Boston?

Phreaking never went away because telecom companies are too greedy and stupid to spend money on proper security upgrades.

Cloning a mobile is childishly simple with a visit to WalMart.

You can build some pretty neat stuff out of off the shelf crap if you try.

That having been said, sending armed SWAT teams to your buddy's folks' house is really really really bad.

You know, sending pizzas is fine, but that crosses a line for me. Now I haven't phreaked since long ago when there was this thing called "long distance" charges, so I am not familiar with the method used.

That having been said, I appreciate and applaud intellectual curiosity as much as the next anarchist, but when you put lives in danger with your pranks, it's time for bed.

Twunts.

/I prefer meat lover's thin crust, thanks.

Ken Elwell

@mrpedenman: And you did nothing to stop him. Jerkface.

Kaiser-Machead

@puffnstuff: You mean cockmeat?

@FredoGodofredo: They might hire him in 11 years.

qrius

@HyperDrunk: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!!!!!!!!!!! You watch CSI: Miami?

I predict the prison population will play with him the "what's warm, slimy and all over your face?" game.

mr.dada

Rule of thumb: If you've got a handicap, you really shouldn't prank call 9-11.

I hope he enjoys cocknee sandwiches

@ZaxxonQ.com:

Sixthed! To that douche:

I hope your cellmate thinks he's God
But C.N.N. refer to him as "Bowling Ball Bag Bob"
Serving time again for abuse of a corpse
Only this time the victim's a Clydesdale horse
While he masturbates to photos of livestock
He does the "Silence of the Lambs" dance to Christian Rock
Eats feces and quotes from "Deliverance"
And fights with his imaginary playmate Vince

They should just give him a touchscreen phone. lets see him dial now

Ali Khan

@Darwinist: Caller ID, that's what happened.

selianth

I never understood why people would do shit like this to systems that MIGHT ONE DAY HELP THEM. I can see if someone is pranking a group, say Democrats messing with Republicans and vice versa. But this is a system designed entirely to help and assist people with emergencies. It doesn't choose or pick sides. It doesn't tell you how or what to think. You call them and the respond to YOU.

Fucking morons.

Duc

Can you see me now?

@ZaxxonQ.com: Not too far enough!

I'm just wondering how you'll set them on fire once they're in his throat/stomach. Or were you saying set *him* on fire? Either is great of course.

@OCEntertainment: 911 is for emergencies. You wanna joke around then call your local police or something. Don't make a federal offence about it.

Michael Mantis

I, as a rule don't usually wish bad things upon people, but I'll make an exception this time. Too bad they can't send him to Pelican Bay for a month.

Worst thing I ever did - Crashing executive banquets at the Disneyland Hotel, pretending to be some exec's kid, good eats and no one ever questioned us.

@tande04: I only heard of it last week, and that was due to swatting occuring in an episode of CSI miami

HyperDrunk

@OCEntertainment: Yeah, normal phone pranks can be annoying, but they're largely benign. Screwing with 911 and sending SWAT teams who think they're off to stop a violent murderer with hostages is, uhh...that's not okay. At all.

@lostarchitect: I know someone who did it all the time to their friend at the pizza place. Of course they werent in on the scam, because they offered the pizza anyway. It was great.

I know some guys who had one at in N out where they'd go during lunch, when it was busy, place a HUGE order with the greenest cashier then "forget my card" and "run outside to go get it". If you timed it right, the order went through anyways and you got free food. It worked 4 times till the manager caught on.

redkamel

@tande04: I had also never heard of this until today. Is this supposed to be fun or something? I'm having trouble grasping the concept.

@FredoGodofredo: I dont know if phone re number re-routing counts as 1337 skillz.

redkamel

@mrpedenman: No kidding? Wow. how does it feel to know a celebrity? Ever meet him? Hang with him?

Michael Mantis

@Curves: Maybe someone made fun of his Ray-Bans.

@ttech10: I agree, totall assterix.

@nukee: Wow! Blind and 11 years to go. Shit. That fucking sucks.

Michael Mantis

Rot in jail, punk ass.

badsponge

@Shamoononon, Vampire Grater: this is terrible: my relative is a fireman. at least once a week they call the pizza parlor next door just before closing and order a pizza to be picked up. then, about 10 minutes after the pickup time is past they go over to the parlor to buy a soda. inevitably, the kid at the pizza place offers them a free pizza that someone didn't show up for.

@N@tedog: Please Hold.

@Nick: Back in the U.K there was a great hack for the 1st gen payphones using prepaid cards back in the 80's. They used a system where a small hammer would punch the card at timed intervals denting an embedded foil strip below plastic; then a scanner would check the indents for time remaining. A few coats of clear nail varnish was enough to block the indentation and the card never expired. BT had a costly exercise fixing that issue...

bez_online

@FredoGodofredo: I'm not sure that works out so well in real life. Besides, did these guys have actual skills or were they doing what someone else figured out and then posted?

SinisterBill

I REALLY hope they sent the SWAT team that got pranked to go pick him up. Now that would have been fun, matter of fact, I would have hit that up on pay per view.

sqeakytoy of the apocalypse

@chefgon: Wrong. Not excessive.

Police are all trigger happy these days. If the victim owned a dog, the SWAT team would have shot it first and determined it's attitude afterward.

If the victim had drawn a pistol at what sounded like a home invasion, the SWAT team would have swiss cheesed him.

This retard did not get enough time for this murder attempt.

kbarrett

@mrpedenman: Not anymore..

Skeetz

11 years might be slightly excessive, but he definitely deserved a little jail time for that one.

chefgon

@Mr Biggles_A Pirate against the tides: I'm betting he's going to have some kind of protection/exclusion. Being blind doesn't exactly give you the best defense.

Huh I thought all the usual Giz commenters would be on this guys side for some reason. I am glad to see people realize this guy cost a lot of cities money and resources that should have been betters spent and probably scared a lot of people pretty badly. I hope he enjoys his prison time. I wonder if they are going to make him pay back the tens of thousands of dollars in wasted taxpayer money it cost to respond to his pranks?

antitrust311

@lostarchitect: Ha, me too. I used to call plumbers and explain why my toilet was clogged. Or send the pizza guy to the house down the street (did it once, okay).

Whatever happened to just calling people up and asking them if they're refrigerator is running?

I hope they send him to a "POUND ME IN THE ASS PRISON".

mikemacman

@Kaiser-Machead: CallerID eliminated the fun of "Hello, Is your refrigerator running?"...

dfwguy

That "Guadalupe Martinez" sounds like "Michelle Rodriguez" that's how I imagine her.

Skid-Vicious

@FredoGodofredo:

Fuck em! They were sending SWAT teams to innocent peoples homes and that could have turned deadly. This is not some juvenile prank they intended to hurt people and possibly get someone killed in the process.

I'm sure the Blind dickweed will find someone to assist him in prison..lol!

Korgoths

@Nick:
This kid is gonna be able to shit school busses in 12 years time

KingPsyz here for HappyFunKingPsyz©

@Duckspwn: to shit*

@aerospaceman: Special Wedgies And Tactics! FTW.

@aerospaceman:
if three nerds, one blind, showed up at my house to harass me, I wouldn't call the police. I'd give them wedgies.

@DarthTader: When I was a kid I got in trouble once for breaking the windows out of an abandon building with rocks. I think there should have been a Jack thompson of the times trying to ban ornamental landscaping rocks.

You know, whenever this nutsack gets out of prison, he needs to have an "emergency" and 911 should say "who's this again? Guadalupe Martinez? Oh yeah, I remember you, fuck off asshole!"

@FredoGodofredo: Sometimes you just don't reward assholes for being assholes.

BlackSmokeDMax

I guess he and the Verizon employee couldn't see eye to eye.

@Nick: In the olden days (1970s) in Washington, DC, there was a free newspaper called the "Quicksilver Times" that used to publish long distance credit card numbers. Hundreds of people would use them until the phone company shut the number down. We saw this as an act of revolution although in retrospect it was plain old stealing.

stryder100

What ever happened to the old "Is your fridge running?" line. Or calling your High School principal and telling his secretary you might have given him crabs?

When I was growing up, a good, harmless time was when the cops didn't show up. What an idiot.

Darwinist

@FredoGodofredo: Someone with that bad of judgment shouldn't be in the mainstream of society. Let him fix the toilets in prison.

inajeep

@Nick: I hear that. Kids now a days ruin everything that was fun and non-malicious a decade+ ago.

We use to drill holes in a quarter and yank it back out. It worked on some older phones and arcade machines.

@Bigbadbikernerd: nope, he deserces it! He pulled a swat team from being available for someone who potentially could have needed one. Butt pirate! (not you, him) ;-)

@Temperature: Long walks on the beach, friends and good food, someone to talk to, oh and PRISON!

@nukee: 5th'did ;-) What a moron, have fun in the slammer dipshit
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@ZaxxonQ.com: Don't forget shit on their chest!

@Nick: Don't you go blaming the video games. Blame the parents. Or better yet blame this dumbass kid for being a shithead.

DarthTader

@facepuncher: Fifthed! Scum like this should have their balls ripped off, shoved down their mouths, and then set on fire! >_<
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..........too far? :-|

That is why I stick to calling pizza hut with an Indian accent. :)

@JoshuaTerrell: fourthed. assholes like this don't belong in society

There's victimless pranks, there's pranks with victims that need to lighten up....

Then there's this asshat.

Don't screw with 911, man.

@Kaiser-Machead: seriously, i was satisfied with farty sounds and grunts.

haha yeah this kid lives a few blocks from me in Revere, MA

AAAAH!!! that made my day, Nick lmao...

JeanStork

@nutbastard: Ten years before that you checked to see if the payphone had a "paperclip port" before bothering to box it. Frankly I'm surprised it took them that long to render playback tones useless.

@Pope John Peeps II: You know I actually missed the fact that the kid was blind at first. I thought blind was modifying phone, not hacker.

tande04

@tande04:

seconded. i had no idea, never imagined, that this was on anyones list of goals.

@Jeremy Smith: Bubba wants him to be his bitch now!

@nutbastard: yeah, phone phreakin' used to be innocent fun. kids these days and their violent video games.

Nick

@Mr Biggles_A Pirate against the tides: Thirded. This is retarded.

JoshuaTerrell

@Temperature: Oh I'm sure he will pick up some new ones in his new 11 year home.

Jeremy Smith

@Ozymandias: Yea shanked and spanked!

but seriously i want him to be "welcomed" by the other inmates.

Mr Biggles_A Pirate against the tides

@Nick:

smooth. i once blueboxed a payphone just to see if i could. it worked, way back in 1999, but in 2002 i tried it again and no dice. i think they've altered the way it all works, so that playing tones into the receiver is an exercise in futility.

Don't people believe in the simple joy of harmless phone pranks anymore? I used to have fun going through the huge list of numbers on the Petland directory when I used to work in a petshop on a slow Sunday. At least none of these people were charged with saving the lives of others, unless you count selling cat and dog vitamins, and fish fungal cures something of supreme importance. Fuck this guy; let the little bastard rot longer than a decade, I say.

Kaiser-Machead

(Scratching my head)

Enjoy prison, oh and trying to find a decent job after you get out, convicted felon*.

* Assuming someone doesn't stick him in the jugular with a shiv, which is a very real possibility considering the kind of personality this asshat must have to do some shit like this.

oh, and i have been reading about this kid for a while. this isn't his first run in with da raw and not his first time sending swat to someone's house.

Nick

@nukee: Wasting time and money of 911 services is a big no no what if someone was really be kidnapped.

Mr Biggles_A Pirate against the tides

I like that the blind hacker went along to harass the Verizon investigator. If there's one thing scarier than a computer nerd, it's a blind computer nerd.

What an assclown. Maybe he can call swat to help him when he's getting buttraped in prison.

What exactly do you have to do to make someone mad enough at you to call SWAT.

Those pen stealing bastards at work are in for it now.

Really? REALLY? Amazing.

Party.

Digital9

What a ****.

@N@tedog: i'm sorry, but the number you dialed is disconnected. we've been downsized.

Nick

i once pulse dialed from a courtesy phone at the airport with no keypad to call my parents. all the other kids waited in a long line at a payphone to call collect and i figured i would save my parents a couple bucks. the chaperones didn't think it was a good idea, but i saw those 20/20 shows on collect calling scams.

Nick

How is this even amusing? Whats the pay off? What a fuckin tard.
I hope he gets shanked.
Dumb ass.

@nukee: Agreed. Why do people want to fuck with people with guns? Makes no sense to me.

DarthTader

This story refers to Matthew Weigman (aka Li'l Hacker). I have read several "feature" storys about him and his exploits. Its about time that he got his come-uppance; although he deserves 5 times the sentence he ended up getting.

And their skillz going to waste?
They should hire them to protect their flawed systems.

I don't know, make some kind of crazy arrangement wit Horatio and work free undercover for the government, you know what I mean.

Huh, add that term to the list of shit I never knew existed and now that I do I don't understand why.

tande04

Don't people have normal hobbies anymore?

Temperature

Good. Fucking idiot.

nukee

Hello, NYC SWAT? Yeah my boss is attempting to lay me off. How fast can you be here?