Vulnerabilities Discovered In Prison SCADA Systems

Posted by Unknown on Monday November 7, 2011 @03:01PM from the release-the-prisoners dept.

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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Not to sound tinfoil-hattish, but... by drfreak · 2011-11-07 15:15 · Score: -1, Troll

this kind of justifies Mitnick being in solitary for so long. The powers that be of course had no idea this was possible, but if anyone could do it, it would be a hacker in prison on "good time".