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Guy Gets SWAT Team-ed for Not Securing His Wireless Connection
The Agitator ^ | 04/24/2011 | Radley Balko

Posted on 04/24/2011 3:27:11 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

You know where this is going. They got the wrong guy. Someone else had used Covert’s wireless connection to download child porn.

Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale.

It sure is. I can certainly think of some lessons we might draw. One might be: Maybe the cops should check to see if a suspect’s wireless network is secure, and therefore that they have the right guy, before they break into his home and point their guns at his head.

Another lesson: Maybe it’s not such a good idea to send the SWAT team after someone suspected of downloading—not even manufacturing—child porn in the first place. Are people who download kiddie porn known to be heavily armed?

As you might suspect, these aren’t the lessons the police drew from their violent, mistaken raid on Barry Covert. This is:

Their advice: Password-protect your wireless router.

Probably good advice, given that they don’t seem particularly concerned about their own mistakes in this case.

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To: bvw; GeronL

Lots of hypocrites in the Freeper “Law-And_Order-At-Any-Cost” Crowds...


21 posted on 04/24/2011 4:04:53 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

When you’re a hammer the world is a nail.


22 posted on 04/24/2011 4:07:10 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: GeronL
anyone looking for kiddie porn deserves to be shot

I would not be surprised if the Feds have created their own kiddie porn sites to trap those that would seek the stuff. It is consistent with letting the guns get sold to Mexican cartels to see where they end up.

Government and logical thought are mutually exclusive.
23 posted on 04/24/2011 4:07:26 PM PDT by microgood
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To: nerdwithagun
...I think better management when and where they go might be better.

When you got a high-tech, million-dollar hammer sitting in your toolbox, everything starts to look like a nail.

24 posted on 04/24/2011 4:13:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." -Napoleon Bonaparte)
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To: Soothesayer9
Sort of weird: I went to your link and on the side bar were several video links for what seemingly looked child porn clips.

I thought YouTube did not allow such garbage

25 posted on 04/24/2011 4:13:36 PM PDT by Popman (Obama. First Marxist to turn a five year Marxist plan into a 4 year administration.)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale...........................................................................This did not happen, it is a fairy tale, a fable, nothing more.


26 posted on 04/24/2011 4:17:28 PM PDT by eastforker (Visit me at http://www.eastforker.com)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

Law and order don’t come that way. A man should check his words twice before releasing the trigger on them, and then he should train himself to be careful in speech. I say that, of course, but I too often find myself shooting to kill with words I released unchecked. It’s not an easy duty.


27 posted on 04/24/2011 4:22:32 PM PDT by bvw
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

The thing that I’ll NB here is that:

1. With the right tools, a hacker can recover the WEP/WPA-PSK key for any wireless network. All they need is enough traffic and a sufficiently powerful computer to regenerate the key from the traffic. If I want to crack your wireless network, all I will need, worst case, is probably about two days’ worth of your encrypted traffic. The heavier a user of the ‘net you are, the less time it takes me to gather the required amount of traffic to reverse generate your key.

2. Once the key has been recovered, a hacker can either use the network, or attack hosts on the network.

3. There are additional levels of security that people aren’t employing besides putting keys on their routers. People should also hide the SSID, they should lock down the MAC addresses that the router will allow onto the network. Locking down MAC addresses won’t stop a hacker for long, but if your hacker/attacker is jamming ARP and stealing your MAC address, you should see the problem on your local network reasonably quickly..

4. Botnets have infected millions of computers across the world, and the users have no idea what their computers are actually doing. People should close down a great many ports that they don’t need on their networks so outbound connections cannot be initiated.

The best defense for people these days is to not only encrypt their networks, but rotate through a reasonably large set of keys. Crypto keys are something that become both more valuable and weaker with increased use. For people who want a really secure network, they should think about rotating through long keys at least twice/day.

People should also encrypt their hard drives on their computers. While it doesn’t prevent LEO’s from decrypting your hard drive if they bring enough resources to bear, it does slow down the planting of evidence.


28 posted on 04/24/2011 4:23:34 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: NVDave
For people who want a really secure network, they should think about rotating through long keys at least twice/day.

If you need that kind of security, then not using wireless is really the best option.

29 posted on 04/24/2011 4:38:13 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: pnh102

That’s true as well. There is an increasing proportion of the population, however, who get their ISP service over point-to-point wireless connections. For them, the choice is “wireless or no IP.”


30 posted on 04/24/2011 4:50:25 PM PDT by NVDave
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

WPA2 people!


31 posted on 04/24/2011 4:55:35 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

SWAT teams and the courts never make mistakeslistening to some people here!


32 posted on 04/24/2011 4:57:41 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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To: nerdwithagun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV87HfWE9Es&feature=fvwrel


33 posted on 04/24/2011 5:00:42 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour; SmithL; Eyes Unclouded; Rodney King; Redcitizen; ellery; dcwusmc; ...
"Whoops... Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else" PING

Click the link to be added to the "Whoops. Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else" PING list.

34 posted on 04/24/2011 5:02:07 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: GeronL

Did you read the article, idiot? No wonder FR is portrayed to look like a bunch of Hitleresque extremists.


35 posted on 04/24/2011 5:06:44 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: caver; The KG9 Kid


36 posted on 04/24/2011 5:14:31 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour

What’s your point?


37 posted on 04/24/2011 5:20:46 PM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: caver

LOL...


38 posted on 04/24/2011 5:31:28 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: caver

Compare and contrast?


39 posted on 04/24/2011 6:11:04 PM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics!)
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Well, I'm not prepared to go that far with comparisons, but to decent and innocent citizens shot to death in mistaken 'no-knock' raids, I'm sure that they didn't distinguish any difference right before they died.

So I guess you're half right, at a minimum.

40 posted on 04/24/2011 6:26:40 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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