All the stories tagged with prison
Prisoners can’t read Facebook pages–even if they’re printed out
10/15/2012, Here’s some bad news if you’re a con and you want to keep up with your friends on the outside: if somebody sends you printed-out Facebook pages, they’ll get confiscated. The confirmation comes via Mark Nixon’s appeal, which was rejected [...]
Robots to take care of prisons in South Korea
11/25/2011, It looks like South Korea is really keen on replacing the country’s workers with robotic counterparts. Earlier this year it was reported that cinema ticket sales would be handled by some robots in the country, and now it looks like [...]
Stuxnet worm could allow hackers to open maximum security prison doors remotely
11/10/2011, Not too long ago the Stuxnet worm was discovered, and it seems that according to security analysts, if not dealt with quickly the Stuxnet worm could be exploited by hackers and allow them to remotely open the doors of maximum [...]
Remote control helicopter used to attempt cellphone smuggling into prison
09/26/2011, We guess that it’s a generally accepted rule that cellphones aren’t allowed in prison, and we’re guessing it’s for a huge variety of reasons. After all the point of prison is to serve your time and rehabilitate yourself, and not [...]
Hackers can help inmates break out of prison
08/09/2011, Just when we thought that hackers freeing prisoners only happened in the movies, at the recent DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, researchers revealed that it is possible for hackers to help prisoners escape from prison. They realized this [...]
Prisoner makes $1 million selling Apple devices purchased with forged credit cards
02/04/2011, How often do you hear about criminals behind bars committing crimes out of prison while still behind bars? Not very often. An inmate from the Rikers Island prison managed to mastermind a scam to forge credit cards that were used [...]
