>>But a SWAT Team?
Where was the expection of an armed resistance
necessitating the use of drawn arms on forced entry? <<
That is the part I find extremely interesting. It’s not like a knock on the door is going to result in a mad dash to flush drugs down the toilet or wipe a hard drive. It is totally inapropriate - especially in a world where open wi-fi may not be the norm, but it is common enough to not assume that you have the perp simply because it is his IP.
This is especially true since any SMART bad guy is not going to use his own connection to do this sort of crap. He’s going to use someone elses. The cops LITERALLY should have seriously considered that that is what was going on in this case.
Well, the good thing is that the cops are now aware of unsecured routers, and they understand that illegal activity isn’t being done by people on their own routers. And now cops will test to see if the router is unsecured. If it’s unsecured, they’d assume that the person doing the illegal activity on it is not the owner of the router, and they won’t come busting down the door.