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People end up in prison for a reason. Though how I wish it wasn't so.
People have gone to the prison in the past solely because of the color of their skin or because of their religion. People today go to prison just for possessing a plant or criticizing their head of state. Let's not pretend that being in prison is anything other than a moral judgement rather than an indication of someone's character. It just makes it easier to dehumanize prisoners ("they deserve it") and harder for th…
There's.. a lot of bad people in prison, and for good reason -they've done empirically terrible things, and many without remorse - no matter the "POV"
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> 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 what happens when you don't have layered security. MAC address whitelisting, crytographic hardware tokens, 2fa, etc all would have stopped it dead in its tracks, but someone decided a login screen would be "enough".
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Proud. The US prison system is oppressive garbage. Good for the inmates.
Exactly. Especially in Ohio. I remember years ago listening to the District Attorney of Cincinnati say he didn't believe in rehabilitation! WTF? 1% of Americans have been through the incarceration system. That's insane. These guys are probably just going to be reprimanded and be given more time in prison, when really they should encourage their education and effort to push them to legit computer work when they leave.…
That's not quite correct. 1% of American adults are currently incarcerated. There's nearly 2.5M current prisoners, and the US total population is about 310M, so once you remove kids from that 'total pop' count...
Here's hoping they didn't smuggle a full size ATX motherboard through the facility using the 'old fashioned' prison method. Or even a 3.5" SATA hard drive...
Here's hoping they didn't smuggle a full size ATX motherboard through the facility using the 'old fashioned' prison method. Or even a 3.5" SATA hard drive...
> 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. It appears the program provided an effective education.
This isn't an "education", its just slave labour.
> 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. It appears the program provided an effective education.
Right. You can learn a lot of Javascript by breaking up old computers. This isn't an "education", its just slave labour.