{"id":27905,"date":"2016-07-14T19:02:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T00:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27905"},"modified":"2016-07-14T19:02:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T00:02:54","slug":"man-who-swated-rsmccain-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27905","title":{"rendered":"Man Who SWATed RSMcCain Sentenced To Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theothermccain.com\/2016\/07\/13\/mir-islam-swat-swatting-dox-doxing-prison-fbi\/\">Sometimes the good guys win one<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mir Islam, 22, of New York, N.Y., was sentenced today to 24 months in prison on three federal charges stemming from a conspiracy to commit various crimes related to the \u201cswatting\u201d and \u201cdoxing\u201d of dozens of victims, and from a false bomb threat made against a university in Arizona and a pattern of online harassment constituting cyber-stalking against a university student, all occurring between February and September 2013.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Islam and his (thus far unindicted) co-conspirators seemed to target people who wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?tag=convicted-felon-brett-kimberlin\">convicted felon Brett Kimberlin<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Robert Stacy McCain also links to <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2016\/07\/serial-swatter-stalker-and-doxer-mir-islam-gets-just-1-year-in-jail\/\">computer security expert Brian Krebs<\/a>, who goes into more detail on the trial and how Islam et. al. obtained information about their victims. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the good guys win one: Mir Islam, 22, of New York, N.Y., was sentenced today to 24 months in prison on three federal charges stemming from a conspiracy to commit various crimes related to the \u201cswatting\u201d and \u201cdoxing\u201d of dozens of victims, and from a false bomb threat made against a university in Arizona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,31],"tags":[1621,3367,1620,2872,2867,3368,2094,1681],"class_list":["post-27905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-jihad","tag-brett-kimberlin","tag-brian-krebs","tag-convicted-felon-brett-kimberlin","tag-crime","tag-jihad","tag-mir-islam","tag-robert-stacy-mccain","tag-swat-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27917,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27905\/revisions\/27917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}