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In Evansville, Indiana, a Police SWAT team has executed a search warrant on a home in full tactical gears. The reason: threats perpetrated against local Police forces over the internet, threatening the officers lives, their family, including the mention of home-made bombs. The Police needed no more to quickly find what Internet address was used to send the threats, and what physical address it was linked to.
But when they executed the search warrant -with flash bangs (sounds/light grenades designed to disorient) and all- they found an innocent family that had no idea of why this was happening. Shortly after, the Police realized that they were misled by the IP address from the threat message, and that they got the wrong folks. (more…)
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