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> law enforcement isn’t to blame in this case. The police response was deliberately incited by a group of malicious individuals.

If a system can be easily manipulated from the outside to produce negative results, the outsider is easily to blame the first time it happens.

Swatting has been a problem for over a decade[0]. If the system remains vulnerable to the same attack for that long, the system administrator is at fault for failing to resolve the issue.

[0] I was lazy so just looked up what UD thinks, the second definition is dated 2007, so that seems like a reasonable date to consider "over a decade" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swatting



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