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Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by DanBC »

panzer_wyrm wrote: post #5

Why is actually acceptable to limit the communications of prisoners at all. They have their mobility limited - it is punishment enough. Not sure how limiting them from the internet and cell phones helps with their debt to society.

We know that some prisoners continue to commit crime, and that they use mobile phones to do so.

I'm strongly in favour of rehabilitation. I don't think prison works and it should be used far less than it is. But even I think that control of mobile phones is important.

And it's not just about phones. A prisoner could easily pack Stanley knife blades in a safe package and put those up his anus.

There are some important human rights balances here. We can't insert fingers into the anus of all prisoners just in case, but we do need to protect prisoners from violent crime.

This is especially true because there are a range of different types of detention against your will - patients in a mental health hospital on a short assessment stay; people in a police cell overnight; medium term patients in MH hospital; long term patients in a forensic hospital (they committed an act of serious violence while they were mentally ill and were sent to hospital); long term prisoners who keep committing acts of violence while in prison. We can't perform the same levels of checking on all of them.

There has been some work on this, on checking what type of airport scanners work or don't work for detecting blades. It's a bit scary to see what gets through.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by gadders »

ourmandave wrote: post #4

The article is about sneaking phones (and chargers) into prisons and all the things around that. Obviously it's possible to get reasonably large items up your bottom, otherwise fisting wouldn't be such a popular hobby, but for the purposes of easy storage and retrieval, you're going to want to go as small as possible. Look, I've had plenty of "How did I get here?" moments on the internet, but this is the first time i…

I bet Goatse man could do a Samsung Note no problem.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by moftz »

jakobegger wrote: post #21
justabystander wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If crimes were easily trackable and prosecutable , we probably wouldn't have such a hard time keeping criminals in jail. We still have crimes committed in jail that don't get properly solved, much less sentenced. Also, this isn't necessarily about dumb kids being busted for drugs or stealing, but organized crime members. The possibility of them ordering hits from inside prison walls or tracking down people in witness…

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of prisoners are not mafia bosses who order hits from prison. I'd consider it totally okay to isolate these people. But most prisons are filled with dumb kids busted for drugs or stealing, and I see no reason why we should make them even more miserable... I'd rather have them keep their connections in the outside world, so they have more of a chance to get back on their feet onc…

Prisoners already have communication mediums that guards can monitor and if they want to talk to someone with no prying ears or eyes, they can talk to a lawyer. Prisoners should have no need for cell phones or access to unrestricted communications. Yes, there are some young people in prison that really shouldn't be but there are plenty of dangerous gang members in there that should be totally removed from their "business responsibilities".

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by zimpenfish »

gadders wrote: post #33
ourmandave wrote: post #4

The article is about sneaking phones (and chargers) into prisons and all the things around that. Obviously it's possible to get reasonably large items up your bottom, otherwise fisting wouldn't be such a popular hobby, but for the purposes of easy storage and retrieval, you're going to want to go as small as possible. Look, I've had plenty of "How did I get here?" moments on the internet, but this is the first time i…

I bet Goatse man could do a Samsung Note no problem.

Which Note? Although I don't think it makes much odds - he has an astonishing capacity for insertion (he's done much more than the goatse image and it was relatively easy to find his content a while back.)

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by DanBC »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #30

It must be pretty easy to block communications in a prison? Presumably it's a bit of a game, they want the prisoners communicating so they can track it??

Depending where the prison is some laws would need to be changed before cell-phone jammers are allowed. That leaves converting the prison into a faraday cage, which is pretty expensive and difficult to do.

If you want to track prisoner communication you give them free access to landline phones which you record, and crack down on cellphones which are hard to monitor.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by reificator »

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #20
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple is likely to go beyond and make ocular implants at some point. The apple watch is also getting more and more capable, if they can slim that one down a bit more it would also become viable. If pricey - this one's just $40.

> this one's just $40. Sure, but the iPhone XXX will detect if it's shoved up someone's ass and automatically go to silent mode. It Just Works™. You don't want to get caught because you forgot to put your cheap ass-phone on silent.

Ah, good old https://xkcd.com/37/
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