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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: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 15 2017, @08:44AM
For computer skills, you have Hans Reiser. He wrote a killer filesystem for Linux called Reiserfs. You used to be able to install to it.
If he pairs up with a con man (for social skills) then you have quite the team.
The guards are often criminal too. They are hired from the same low-class places the inmates are mostly coming from. They assist the inmates.
Security is pretty damn bad. If we were serious, the inmates wouldn't be able to communicate with anyone who had ever been convicted or with any minor. If we were serious, the inmates wouldn't be able to touch anything other than smooth welded-down stainless steel -- that includes the bed, and no clothing either.