Somebody needs to educate the applicant (the police) and those issuing the search warrant (magistrates I assume). As for the actual execution of the warrant, it looks like the SWAT used it as an exercise.
A few days ago members of the Evansville, Ind., SWAT team served a warrant at the physical address associated with a WiFi router from which multiple online threats against local law enforcement had originated. Turns out the postings had not originated from the house in which the router was located. The router was configured as an open network and had been used by a neighbor. Oops.
I don’t know enough about such things to be able to say anything authoritative about judges’ general background knowledge of the workings of the Internet or the wisdom of bunching what by my count were nine officers on the porch of a structure which there was reason to believe contained explosives. I do know enough, however, to say this: WAP is your friend. If you have been waiting for a good reason to spend the time figuring out how to secure your home’s wireless network this story is as good as any.
Also, Evansville has a SWAT team?!?
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
Somebody needs to educate the applicant (the police) and those issuing the search warrant (magistrates I assume). As for the actual execution of the warrant, it looks like the SWAT used it as an exercise.
davidbfpo
also as a photo op. Given the way things turned out they might wish they had that one back.
Know that you say it, that a magistrate may have issued the warrant makes a lot of sense. In my experience the legal background and overall quality of local magistrates is, um, variable.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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