Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems

phaedrus5001 writes with an excerpt from an Ars Technica article: "Researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the computer systems used to control facilities at federal prisons that could allow an outsider to remotely take them over, doing everything from opening and overloading cell door mechanisms to shutting down internal communications systems. ... The researchers began their work after [John] Strauchs was called in by a warden to investigate an incident in which all the cell doors on one prison's death row spontaneously opened."

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Re:Uh oh

[justforgetme]

I tried to.
Damn thing wouldn't install.
Kept complaining that my windows were missing. Damit, they are
right there in front of you, filling in the huge holes in the walls!