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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
SC

for the past ten months, online hackers has been sending police/firetrucks etc to my house as a prank.
and on the 7th time, the local police got a search warrant to find out if it was my fault?
they ended up taking my computer, so i guess they will be going through that

my question is: if they find anything thats not related to what they're searching for
such as: under 18 pornography, software piracy, or anything of that sort
will they be able to charge me with that stuff ?

of course not. They will ignore all the evidence of illegal actions.


Just kidding.



They can take that evidence and file appropriate charges against you

Did you have any illegal things on your computer?

justalayman said:

of course not. They will ignore all the evidence of illegal actions.


Just kidding.



They can take that evidence and file appropriate charges against you

Did you have any illegal things on your computer?

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Based on the question, I would assume he is a computer pirate with child porn on his machine.

Zigner said:

Based on the question, I would assume he is a computer pirate with child porn on his machine.

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I wouldn't be surprised to hear that is true.

That is why I posted as I did. He really wanted to hear the police would not be able to utilize the evidence they will find on his computer. I was just having fun.

In the papers in my town is an article about a man who just got arrested. He took his computer to the Geek Squad (Best Buy's tech support department), and while they were going through his files they came across the kiddie porn he had been downloading.

How exactly are on line hackers sending the police and fire to your house? They don't have a 911 e-mail service set up in your town do they?

Or do the hackers call using their computer, which in some way identifies your address as the source of the call in the 911 identification system?

The reason I ask is because about ten years ago, the police went to my residence on two seperate occasions, claiming someone had dialed 911. The first time no one was home and my neighbor called me at work. I went home and let the police look through my house.

The second time it happened when I was moving to a different residence. The funny thing was that I had the phone shut off already, so there was no phone at the house to dial 911 from.

I discovered a couple years later that one of my neighbor's houses had a telephone panel which was installed in his attic, by the phone company, when the house was built. This junction box had most every phone line in the neighborhood going through it.

When I was living in the house the police came to, thinking someone had dialed 911, there were a couple of the neighborhood delinquents living in the house with the phone company junction box in it.

So I figure it was these kids having a little fun at the expense of the police and neighbors.

But I haven't heard of anyone using their computer to summon the police as a prank?

On the outside of your house, in one corner or the other, is a gray telephone box where the lines coming from the pole connect. Inside that box, is a telephone jack that allows someone testing the box to plug a phone into, and make calls from outside of the house.

If you do not have a pad-lock on that, it is possible that someone is crouching down at that box, plugging in a telephone, and dialing 9-1-1.

Secure your Telco box. Then hire an attorney if you really have child pornography on your computer.

ckhoppus said:

for the past ten months, online hackers has been sending police/firetrucks etc to my house as a prank.

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Just HOW are they doing that? And HOW do you know this is the case?

First, I am aware of no CAD system in use that could easily be manipulated in such a way even if the firewalls and passwords could be hacked. It would take a very dedicated effort to simply get ON to my agency's server, and there would be another firewall and another set of passwords to be cracked to enter into the CAD system if they managed to get in to the server in the first place.

Second, if someone went through all that trouble of committing multiple state and federal felonies, WHY would they bother with sending police and fire responses to your residence? That would indicate a childish prank, not the act of a sophisticated hacker.

Third, calls are dispatched by people - not by machines. This just could not happen unless the agency is COMPLETELY automated to the point that there is no dispatcher (and no agency is), or, the call takers are physically isolated from the dispatchers (and the hacker managed to enter the call in somehow after hacking the ID of a call taker), and it was blindly dispatched.

my question is: if they find anything thats not related to what they're searching for
such as: under 18 pornography, software piracy, or anything of that sort
will they be able to charge me with that stuff ?

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Yes, they can. They might need another search warrant if they intend to search for files other than those covered in the original warrant, but whether that might be needed will depend on the status of the law in your neck of the woods.

- Carl

911 kept getting called using your address, so they took your computer????

1st- If the call was connected over the internet, then they can track the clec that the call was placed through, and the clec will have the IP trail leading them towards the source.
If you are using voip, then it is possible that a dial plan is configurated wrong and calls can be diverted to 911 without your knowledge.

2nd- if you don't use voip, and the calls were made from a land line phone line, then I can't see how they could secure a warrent to take your computer. That just wouldn't make any sense.
If it was done over a land line then they should be doing this through the phone company, and the phone company would have to change the pair of wires used for your # with another pair between you and the CO's switch. Common proceedure 101.

So could this be a ruse? Could they suspect that you do have something of interest on your computer? Do you have a cazy ex? Giving the PD false leads?

When they return your computer, don't connect it back to the net. Do a back up of your important Docs... Get yourself a new hard drive and using the software supplied with your computer, do a fresh install.
Store the old HD away from your house where they can't find it. Then sleep soundly at night.

If they latter mention your computer, tell them that you have nothing to say about it.

After all the 911 calls, it looks like someone is setting you up to take a fall.

Not that this is the case BUT the technology and equipment does exist to spoof caller ID and cause the receiver to get a phone number different than the number that is actually calling.

I didn't see the OP mention anything about phone calls, just "online hackers" ... not sure where all the 9-1-1 phone call stuff came from.

- Carl

justalayman said:

Not that this is the case BUT the technology and equipment does exist to spoof caller ID and cause the receiver to get a phone number different than the number that is actually calling.

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Yes, a number of free web sites now allow you to do this.
Of course, they all have disclaimers and warnings not to do stupid stuff but...

Isn't it SOP to dispatch emergency personnel when a 911 call is received and there's no response?
This could be how the hax0rs set up OP.
Sounds like he may have bigger problems now, though.

Roo said:

Isn't it SOP to dispatch emergency personnel when a 911 call is received and there's no response?

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Yes, but the OP did not say that it was 9-1-1 calls that were being received from his residence. He referred to hackers, but made no clarification.


- carl