Convicted Hacker Hijacks Prison Computer System

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Letting a convicted hacker, incarcerated for numerous computer crimes that netted him millions, work on the prison computer system? What could possibly go wrong?

A man serving a six-year prison sentence for stealing millions of dollars through online credit card fraud recently succeeded in (surprise!) hacking into his prison's computer network, effectively paralyzing the entire system. The really incomprehensible part, though, is that officials at Ranby Prison, close to Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, gave him access to the computer.
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Owned! I doubt they'll let this person do touch a PC again and He may have doubled the sentence to be served. The prisoner is owned doubly!
 
Why do it when you know you're going to get caught? If I were the judge I would make sure his future probation kept him from a computer.
 
"So maybe it's not on quite the same earth-shatteringly cataclysmic level as Hannibal Lecter grabbing Jodie Foster's pen. But c'mon. Dude's a hacker. Probably something that should've been taken into account."

This article made my day.
 
well the prison guards probably didnt know any better, prolly didnt know he was a convicted "hacker"
doesnt surprise me there was nobody up the ladder to say "make sure this guy doesnt use any computers"
 
Even if you kept him away from a computer, he will still find a way to hack into something. You give him a ball point pen, a gumball, a tissue and 3 rubber bands, I bet you he can hack into the IRS.
 
Well at least the parole board will know if given a second chance, this guy will waste it.
 
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