Movie:Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet.

This is sure a cool to see movie, with the different aspect of internet bulling and the fear that comes with internet and how your data,

The first episode is about the practice of “swatting,” where someone calls in a prank call about holding hostages or something similar, which compels the police department in the town that is called to send a SWAT team to a person’s house. This practice has been a big deal among gamers, who are aggressive with each other online, with the most extreme among them doing things like swatting in order to get back at another gamer. Of course, false alarms like this cost law enforcement agencies thousands of dollars and takes resources away from places where they’re actually needed.

It can also lead to some dire circumstances, as we see in the case of Tyler Barriss, who got in the habit of calling in bomb threats to various schools around the country, then called one into a TV station near his Los Angeles home, just to see live coverage of the threat as the building is evacuated. He was linked to dozens of pranks, which sent him to county jail for over a year. But when he got out, he started taking requests from people who wanted to “swat” other people; in a particular instance, a Call Of Duty user challenged Barriss to “swat” him, and gave him an address in Wichita. It turned out to be his previous address, and WPD SWAT teams ended up shooting an innocent man, Andrew Finch, who died in the raid.