Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Ohio inmates used salvaged computers to commit credit card fraud from jail


It’s never nice to be without the Internet. When I take a flight and there’s no Wi-Fi, I might grumble. The same is also true when my ISP shits the bed, and I’ve got to wait a few hours for them to send a technician out. Which is why I’ve got a grudging appreciation for the inmate of Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio who built two clandestine computers, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the Internet via the prison’s network. The prison authorities first realized that something might be amiss when informed by the institution’s computer support…

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