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What can a computer recycle program and a little shoulder-surfing get you? For inmates at Ohio’s Marion Correctional Institution, it got them a great deal, enough to build two PCs from the yanked parts and then hide them in the ceiling, use a former employee’s credentials obtained by looking over his shoulder, and then commit “possible identity fraud along with other possible cyber-crimes.”
The Ohio Inspector General’s 50-page report (pdf) includes a big list of fails for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The report reads like a mini novel of intrigue, weaving lax security as well as players across the prison system and prisoners into the story.
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