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Inmates in Ohio's Marion Correctional Institution smuggled computer parts out of an ewaste recycling workshop and built two working computers out of them, hiding them in the ceiling of a training room closet ceiling and covertly patching them into the prison's network.
Ars Technica has some more details, including a link to
Randall Meyer, the Ohio inspector general, said the prison's lax supervision allowed a situation akin to "an episode from Hogan's Heroes."
"It surprised me that the inmates had the ability to not only connect these computers to the state's network but had the ability to build these computers," Meyer said. "They were able to travel through the institution more than 1,100 feet without being checked by security through several check points, and not a single correction's staff member stopped them from transporting these computers into the administrative portion of the building. It's almost as if it's an episode of Hogan's Heroes."
The Inspector General's report (pdf) on the entire incident is available.
(Score: 2) by lx on Saturday April 15 2017, @05:42AM (7 children)
It's a fucking miracle that you haven't been banned from this site as well.
You're not right in the head.
Seek help.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @06:10AM (6 children)
Not only his head! But you have to remember that SoylentNews is not actually a news aggregation site, it is in reality an experiment in a very waqko libertarian ideal of free speech. We want to know if an online community can survive Ethanol_fueled, Runaway1956, jmorris, and The Mighty Buzzard. If we can, anything is possible. But it is looking like the experiment may have negative results.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @06:16AM (1 child)
Any second now I expect a post from Runaway, about how once he was driving truck making a delivery to a Penitentuary, and he saw a bunch of the convicts with CRTs hid under their prison fatigues.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @08:01AM
Did they get transferred to a women's prison to finish out their maternity leave? :-P
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 15 2017, @10:04AM (3 children)
a very waqko libertarian ideal of free speech.
You leave me wondering what that's supposed to mean. If you're against free speech, just say it.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @11:11PM (1 child)
I think it means "free speech including allowing public, unattributed statements."
Most societies with free speech laws do not have provisions (or at least many situations) to speak freely without anyone knowing the speaker's identity.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday April 16 2017, @03:40AM
I think it means "free speech including allowing public, unattributed statements."
I see nothing waqko[sic] about that. Free speech is totally unconditional, or it's not free
Most societies with free speech laws do not have provisions (or at least many situations) to speak freely without anyone knowing the speaker's identity.
This is true. The American's 1st Amendment is probably the singular exception. Nobody else even comes close.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @07:06PM
If you're against free speech, just say it.
Wouldn't that be hypocritical?