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Cyber-criminal Left In Charge of Prison Computer Network

samzenpus writes "A 27-year-old man serving six years for stealing £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet was recruited to help write code needed for the installation of an internal prison TV station. He was left unguarded with unfettered access to the system and produced results that anyone but prison officials could have guessed. He installed a series of passwords on all the machines, shutting down the entire prison computer system. A prison source said, 'It's unbelievable that a criminal convicted of cyber-crime was allowed uncontrolled access to the hard drive. He set up such an elaborate array of passwords it took a specialist company to get it working.'"

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  1. Re:Hmmm. by olsmeister · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I currently have mod points, and nearly modded you flamebait just to piss you off, but decided not to. Hey, they're too precious to waste! ;)

  2. Re:Stupid Brits by ground.zero.612 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    An asshole who bombs the asshole who is bombing the Kurds while telling us that the reason he is bombing the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is because that asshole is bombing the Kurds is not such an asshole. OUR asshole, however, was an asshole who was bombing the asshole who was bombing the Kurds while lying out of his ass that the reason he is bombing the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is because the asshole who is bombing the Kurds is getting ready to bomb US, which he wasn't.

    So the asshole was thinking if he told the truth he might not get to bomb and so he will lie to get his way. That asshole was supposed to work for us, by the way.

    So what you are really saying is that you are all for genocide, and preventing it no matter what the public reason is, is wrong. Nice. See you in hell my friend.

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