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Investigation Finds Inmates Built Computers, Hid Them In Prison Ceiling (cbs6albany.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from WRGB: The discovery of two working computers hidden in a ceiling at the Marion Correctional Institution prompted an investigation by the state into how inmates got access. In late July, 2015 staff at the prison discovered the computers hidden on a plywood board in the ceiling above a training room closet. The computers were also connected to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's network. Authorities say they were first tipped off to a possible problem in July, when their computer network support team got an alert that a computer "exceeded a daily internet usage threshold." When they checked the login being used, they discovered an employee's credentials were being used on days he wasn't scheduled to work. That's when they tracked down where the connection was coming from and alerted Marion Correctional Institution of a possible problem. Investigators say there was lax supervision at the prison, which gave inmates the ability to build computers from parts, get them through security checks, and hide them in the ceiling. The inmates were also able to run cabling, connecting the computers to the prison's network. Furthermore, "investigators found an inmate used the computers to steal the identify of another inmate, and then submit credit card applications, and commit tax fraud," reports WRGB. "They also found inmates used the computers to create security clearance passes that gave them access to restricted areas."
See? All you need to overcome the most insane obstacles is motivation. Just think of all the things these poor people had to go through to get internet access!
It's kinda humbling.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...we would all be mocking it's unrealistic plot.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
That's the least of your worries.
Nobody noticed them run cable.
Nobody noticed them tap into the network.
Nobody noticed them sticking things up in ceilings.
Nobody noticed them taking power to run this stuff.
Nobody noticed them using the machine itself.
Nobody noticed them take items from classes they were in.
Nobody noticed them use the system to the extent they could access private information and defraud others.
(Or were prepared to turn a blind eye to ALL the above).
The problem with the prison is NOTHING to do with them being able to get hold a computer. It's being able to get hold of ANYTHING, even things brought deliberately into the prison for them to hold, without people noticing. And then being so unsupervised or unmonitored that they can basically build a damn network with nobody noticing. No surveillance. No tracking of movements. No wondering where they are. No noticing absences for potentially hours at a time.
In that time, they could have done ANYTHING they liked, with a lot worse things than a bit of fraud being possible.
Nobody noticed. Nobody cared. Nobody checked. Nobody counted. Nobody noticed things missing. Or the guards were bribed / threatened to turn a blind eye. That's your problem. Not what they actually got up to.
From TFA:
The inmates were able to get the parts from a program where inmates break down computers in order to learn computer skills and recycle the parts.
Sounds like the program was successful to me...
Of course, once you know what generation someone is from, you're pretty much done and you don't need to know anything else about them. Because people from a particular generation are all the same. Solid thinking there bud.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
And on the other side of the spectrum we have Norway, where they will ask what computer the person wants to use.
Perhaps thinking of them as humans and not as less than animals might have to do something with it.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
WTF is a prison doing with easily accessible drop ceilings, anyway? That's insane.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Yes, I use actual examples to form my opinion of the world.
In my experience, fire is always hot, water is always wet, criminals are always criminals.
--XYZZY--
So you're incapable of nuanced thought. Well done you.
Lots of people are incapable of nuanced thought. See:
"basket of deplorables"
"Trump voters" becomes "racist voters"
"Unable to support Anita Sarkeesian/Brianna Wu/etc" becomes "Misogynist"
Oh, wait, you thought you were capable of nuanced thought? That's actually quite hilarious.
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
There is an argument that the American prisons are a disguised version of modern slavery. They perform an *enormous* of manufacturing for which the prisoners receive no wages. And since the prisons are run by private companies they are run for profit, so it's not just to cover their own costs. There is no other country in the world in which such a large percentage of its population is locked up. And thanks to the 3-strikes rule some of them are there for very offences - there are prisoners with a life sentence where they had 2 relatively minor crimes followed by something as trivial as shoplifting. There is also a racial aspect to it as something like 90% of prisoners are non-white.
I'm also surprised that a high security environment like a prison wouldn't require port authentication on any device connected to its network. They were able to simply plug a new computer into a spare port on a switch and didn't need to enable the port, install a certificate, or anything. That seems especially surprising when it gave them access to the systems used to issue access cards.
Offspring of illegals.
Someone writes bad checks over $1000 dollars because they're hard on they're luck and making bad choices:
1 felony,
Released on bail,
Got a job as part of release agreement
Missed 2 court appearances - failure to appear on a felony is a felony
2 more felonies - now total 3 felonies; 3 strikes rule kicks in and they're gone for life for being down an out and a bad desperate choice.
Nice system we have.
That's not untrue, but it ain't true either. It basically depends on what era and what system you're asking about whiteness. 55% are indeed "white"...but that follows Census guidelines, not conventional race reporting statistics.
The population of *non-Hispanic whites* is 32%, roughly half their comparative incidence in the general population at 62%
Black men are 37% of the prison population, 12% of general population (a 3x skewing).
Hispanic men are 22% of the prison population, 17% of the general population.
In general minorities are incarcerated at twice the rate. Thankfully this conversation hasn't settled into the inevitable straw man idiocy insisting black people commit more crimes or not (they absolutely do, owing to economic circumstances). The situation is tremendously unfair and at a bare minimum profoundly impacts minorities more severely.