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- verb Present participle of
swat . - noun A motion or gesture that
swats ; aswat .
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Examples
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They may need a bit of help in swatting it hard enough to break, but eventually it comes apart and the wrapped candies and small toys fall out.
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They may need a bit of help in swatting it hard enough to break, but eventually it comes apart and the wrapped candies and small toys fall out.
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It appears to be part of an internet hacking trend dubbed swatting - tricking police to send out a SWAT or emergency response team to an unsuspecting home by hacking into people's computer accounts to disguise the origin of the 911 call.
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Cyber crime experts confirm the Langley case was actually the second such incident of so-called swatting in recent days.
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A Langley, B.C., family, who had SWAT members show up on their doorstep due to a false 911 call, appear to have become pioneer Canadian victims of an Internet phenomenon known as swatting.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed IAN BAILEY 2011
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A Langley, B.C., family, who had SWAT members show up on their doorstep due to a false 911 call, appear to have become pioneer Canadian victims of an Internet phenomenon known as swatting.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed IAN BAILEY 2011
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July 14, the 39-year-old software consultant was working at home while playing music on his headphones when he became the victim of a high-tech crime known as "swatting."
Thestar.com - Home Page Tess Kalinowski 2011
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The practice is known as swatting in the digital underground.
The Register 2009
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The allegations reflect the latest wrinkle in a practice known as swatting, in which miscreants use caller ID spoofing to falsely report emergencies to authorities with the goal of eliciting a response from law enforcement officials, who sometimes are deployed from SWAT, or special weapons and tactics units.
The Register 2009
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Ms. CRANOR: We see all sorts of security warnings pop up on our screen and we've gotten so used to just kind of swatting them away and it's very rare that anything bad ever happens to us.
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Swatting is a criminal harassment tactic of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police and emergency service response team to another person's address.
Swatting - Wikipedia Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2022
bilby commented on the word swatting
"Armed police stormed pop star Miley Cyrus's house in the US, after receiving an emergency call about a possible kidnapping and shooting.
Los Angeles police and rescue crews surrounded the fomer Hannah Montana star's house in Hollywood on Wednesday, while helicopters circled the property.
But they soon discovered there was no one in the building.
Police say the incident may have been part of a trend of prank calls, which has been dubbed swatting.
Swatting is when an anonymous call is made to get a team of police to storm a building or an innocent person's home."
- Armed police storm Miley Cyrus's house, BBC website, 3 August 2012.
August 4, 2012
Logophile77 commented on the word swatting
This killed a man yesterday. Damn shame.
December 30, 2017
MaryW commented on the word swatting
Eli Rosenberg & Herman Wong, A police officer fatally shot a man while responding to an emergency call now called a ‘swatting’ prank, Wash. Post, Dec. 30, 2017December 30, 2017