Indiana grandmother suffers violent SWAT raid after a neighbor uses her wireless internet

Yikes.

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In short, internet smack-talking and lame almost-certainly-nonsensical threats can bring down a massive military response. But not on *you,* on the poor schmoes whose unsecured WiFi you’ve used  to post your nonsense.

So, at least two lessons here:

1) Militarized police…. blah, blah, you’ve heard it before.

2) If you have a WiFi connection in your home and you live close enough to other folks that they could use your signal, make damn sure you have it password protected. Not only will other people riding your WiFi slow your connection down, if they are doing something illegal, *you* may well feel the full force of organized government armed troops. Imagine if your neighbor is using your WiFi to download nekkid photos of the underaged. Or ordering drugs. Or buying illegal weapons. Or trash talking the local police.

Hell, one can easily dream up a conspiracy that a sufficiently irritated police force – or a non-police enemy you might have – could use. Let’s say they don’t like you for… whatever reason. But they don’t have adequate cause to raid your home. But then they find that you have an unsecured WiFi. All that’s now needed is a “burner” phone, some smart phone they can use to get online that won’t be traced back to them. Then they simply sit outside your home and post threats, download illegal stuff, whatever. And then let the appropriate prosecutor know just what a horrible person you are and sit back and wait or them to send in the local special forces to break your doors and windows, terrorize your family, stomp your cat, shoot your dog and, while they’re in there, search your home for whatever they might be able to find.