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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.'"
Is it just me or is there a lot of Troll/Flamebait moderating going on lately about things that are not quite a majority opinion? I suspect someone doesn't like me much, too, as I'm getting modded Troll days after having been modded Insightful or some such. And I'm not the only one.
Anyone else get the same vibes?
Your point is irrelevant for two reasons:
1) I was really making a reference to marijuana, which is most certainly less harmful than LSD, cocaine, meth, alcohol, and even tobacco, yet for some reason is illegal even though alcohol and tobacco, which are physically addictive and cost our society enormous amounts of money, are completely legal.
2) All of these things are things which don't hurt anyone except the user (secondhand smoke aside, and assuming you have laws against DUI), so even if they are harmful, that's no reason to ban them. Alcohol is very very harmful for many reasons (including DUI, which though illegal still happens a lot), but it remains legal, so the harmfulness angle is BS because they're not consistent with it.
As for vitalism, sorry, I don't buy that.