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- ziplizard, on 09/30/2009, -0/+77Next, Convicted Cannibal Left in Charge of Prison Dining Menu
- Solkre, on 09/30/2009, -0/+70The password, is password.
Oh, and don't call it a freaking Hard Drive. If he just had access to the Hard Drive, he wouldn't be able to do anything but bludgeon someone to death with it. - jonglebeats, on 09/30/2009, -0/+64Oh god, not access to... THE HARD DRIVE?!
- catalysis, on 09/30/2009, -2/+59If they gave him access, then he didn't "hack" anything.
- DeadlyAlpaca, on 09/30/2009, -0/+47...
Why do I get the feeling that you were reenacting that with tiny plastic dinosaurs? - edwadokun, on 09/30/2009, -3/+44guard 1 - "man the cable is out laddie! the game is this week!"
guard 2 - "oy we'll just have to call the repair guy"
guard 1 - "no that is going to cost us"
guard 2 - "well then how do you reckon we fix it?"
guard 1 - "hmm.. lets look in the inmate records.. hey this guy harvard was a computer hacker, he can help us!"
guard 2 - "GREAT idea!"
(moments later)
guard 1 - "alright harvard, we gotta do some stuff so we trust you'll have this up by the time we get back right?"
harvard - "sure thing mate"
guard 2 - "and you promise not to do anything else like hacking into the system and messing around?"
harvard - "of course, you have my word as a convicted hacker"
(guards leave)
harvard - "what a bunch of bloody idiots" - Mark1982, on 09/30/2009, -0/+34"Convicted Hacker Left in Charge of Prison Computer System, Hilarity Ensues".
The original headline before it was truncated. - davidwhitehouse, on 09/30/2009, -1/+29He should have escaped aswell...
- rags140, on 09/30/2009, -0/+27Apparently he hadn't watched 'Prison Break' or 'Shawshank' ...
- edwadokun, on 09/30/2009, -0/+24with a full staff.. or what used to be a full staff
- tacojohn48, on 09/30/2009, -0/+24Kevin Mitnick can read the bits off a hard drive platter just by looking at it.
- NathanielJ, on 09/30/2009, -0/+24No, it's not. It's completely expected -- whoever gave him access to the computer unsupervised is just an idiot.
Calling this irony is like calling someone who goes to jail for abuse and then beats up an inmate irony. - WhiskeyLemur, on 09/30/2009, -0/+21Oh no!! With that he can easily access.... THE MOTHERBOARD!!
O.O - Takfam, on 09/30/2009, -0/+21Every time I hear something connecting Alanis Morissette to irony, I feel the need to point out that only the plane crash in that song was ironic. Everything else was unfortunate coincidence.
It kind of makes me feel like Morbo. "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!" - GamerXR72, on 09/30/2009, -0/+20Unless you call them social engineering hacks. No amount of computer security can defeat a good social engineer.
Hacker: "Whats your password? I'll show you this cool website."
Co-Worker: "Oh, it October12, my birthday!"
Network Admin: "Goddamnit..." - GalacticXenu, on 09/30/2009, -0/+18It's pretty ironic that nothing in that song actually was ironic.
- Solkre, on 09/30/2009, -0/+16I lick the platter myself. So many distasteful images these days, yuck!
- Subduction, on 09/30/2009, -0/+14Well it is like rain on my wedding day and a free ride when I've already paid, so it must be.
- campbellstomato, on 09/30/2009, -0/+12i've got one hand in my pocket
the other one is formatting C:\ drive - OutpostNetwork, on 09/30/2009, -0/+12This is what's called the fox guarding the hen house.
- ic3burg, on 09/30/2009, -2/+14We have officially gone mad :P
- papashawn, on 09/30/2009, -0/+11Has the Digg jury determined whether this situation is, in fact, irony?
- WhiskeyLemur, on 09/30/2009, -1/+11So then the blog is correct - it is, indeed, "a twist of Alanis Morrissettian irony," which - well, you know.
- compgeek, on 09/30/2009, -1/+11what ***** genius thought this was a wise idea? Whoever it was should be fired post haste. Come on if you know the guys a convicted cracker don't let him near a sensitive computer system. Christ that's like having a pedophile be your babysitter and you knowing he's a pedo before you hire him to do the job
*facepalm at the sheer idiocy of it all* - buddyw, on 09/30/2009, -0/+9MacGyver can read a hard drive with a paperclip, a string, and a Swiss Army knife.
- Cerin, on 09/30/2009, -2/+9Wow, they should send that guy to jail...
- drizzt380, on 09/30/2009, -0/+7It is ironic that they would put a convicted computer hacker, who was serving time in their jail, in charge of the computers. That is completely unexpected.
It is not ironic that he did mess with their computers. - RealmDown, on 09/30/2009, -1/+7It's hard to escape swells in there.
- UncleJJ, on 09/30/2009, -0/+6Pedo bear is left in charge of a day care news at eleven!
- RealmDown, on 09/30/2009, -1/+7Unofficial is usually enough for the mad.
- Plobe, on 09/30/2009, -0/+6Just like every single example in the song, there is no irony in this situation.
- MarkOfTheDead, on 09/30/2009, -0/+6and "the Malcolm McDowell voice"
- TsuruchiBrian, on 09/30/2009, -0/+6Stealing credit card numbers is only considered hacking in the most general sense, because it's not that hard. You don't even need a computer to do it. Even waiters at sit down restaurants have nearly limitless access to peoples credit card numbers. The hard part is not getting caught (which this particular prisoner is apparently not good at).
People who think stealing credit card numbers is easy, only to be shocked at how similarly easy it is to track down where particular instances of credit card fraud occur, and who likely did it. Banks and credit card companies don't like losing money and they have a lot of money to spend making sure that doesn't happen. They may not all be geniuses but they are a hell of a lot smarter than 2 bit credit card thieves.
Hacking into a computer (even if it is in a prison) that you have been given physical access to, is also not hacking. It's called knowing how to use a computer. This is like calling a guy who finds an open safe full of money a "safe cracker".
The real question is "Why was the safe left open?" (i.e. why are these prison guards so stupid?) - 3mpire, on 09/30/2009, -0/+6does his cell have a firewall?
- Domthedude001, on 10/01/2009, -0/+5DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUN
- NodOfficer, on 10/01/2009, -0/+5He can also sniff packets on an ethernet cable using his nose.
- pointlessbanter, on 09/30/2009, -0/+4"Type 'cookie' you idiot!"
- appleseed1234, on 09/30/2009, -0/+4I don't see why this is necessarily a bad idea, had they enticed him with an earlier release, seeing how prisons are ridiculously overcrowded with non-violent offenders this would have made more sense. Instead, they didn't monitor him and he decided to be an idiot so now he gets even more jail time. I mean, the best hackers don't get caught, but to do something that would land you in prison means you must have some knowledge of computers.
- scuba7183, on 09/30/2009, -1/+5No. Not really
- cheddaro, on 09/30/2009, -0/+4The only winning move is not to play.
- inactive, on 09/30/2009, -0/+4WTF?
- rossisdead, on 09/30/2009, -0/+4I believe the author used that phrase to state "It was completely expected that a convicted hacker would hack the system".
- danrien, on 09/30/2009, -0/+4well he's full and the rest of the staff are eaten, so i guess it still is a full staff.
- rossisdead, on 09/30/2009, -0/+4Yes, that's exactly what the author meant. Is it really that hard to figure these things out?
- knobbysideup, on 09/30/2009, -0/+3Yeah. What a genius she must have been!
- matrixguy, on 09/30/2009, -0/+3Ed Byrne on Alanis Morrisette and said song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBXlXqd6L3o - knobbysideup, on 09/30/2009, -0/+3umm. It's not 'hacking' when you are *given* access to the friggin' system.
- copypastry, on 10/10/2009, -0/+3FREE KEVIN
- CaviMike, on 09/30/2009, -1/+3He didn't manage to fix his file? Well, he also got caught in the first place, he really sucks. Game over. Try again?
- sndream, on 09/30/2009, -0/+2What's the point of him doing that? Shouldn't he play nice with the guards to get his own computer and unlimited web access inside his cell?
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