Pro Tip: If You Run A Prison, Maybe Don't Give The Guy In Jail For Computer Fraud The Job Of Reprogramming Your Computers
from the just-a-suggestion dept
Let's see.... you run a prison and you need to do some work on the computer system. Do you (a) hire a competent professional or (b) hand over the computer system to an inmate who's in jail for computer fraud, involving phishing scams? Apparently, a prison in the UK went with option (b) and then had to deal with being entirely locked out of the computer system, after the guy hacked around and changed everyone's passwords. Apparently, that prison-work program needs a few tweaks...Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Rehabilitation
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Re: Rehabilitation
I can't imagine that working in a *prison* setting, though.
And yeah, clueless IT people. I could tell you stories at both ends of the spectrum - one jail whose booking database had an XML api, and others where toothless Jimmy was responsible for all the computer thingies.
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Typo alert
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Good news!
Luthor: "At last!..."
Havard: "And I vandalized it!"
Luthor: "...What?"
Havard: "Yeah, I messed up the password files and locked 'em all out! You should have seen their faces! Now they won't be able to give us that new TV system for months!"
Luthor: "Doug, next time you're in the yard I want you to tell that to the biggest, meanest-looking con you can find."
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Re: Good news!
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Wow. . .
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Changing passwds?
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Re: Changing passwds?
From the six months I worked in a prison back in 2002 this doesn't surprise me. Most were utterly clueless about computers and I was often asked to print copies of documents which were freely available on the shiny new computer system and post them all round the offices. There was even one member of staff (a typist) who refused to let them replace her old computer which was no capable of using the updated system and so was not internet compatible. She ended up with two computers on her desk, one for typing documents and one purely so she could access the internet. She was, in short, a staggeringly stupid old bat.
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helpful inmate
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Aiding and abetting
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The Next Thing That They Will
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Like a bail out
Duh
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