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Ohio Prisoners Build Computers from Spare Parts, Conceal them in Ceiling
Loaded on July 28, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2017, page 47
A pair of prisoners at the Marion Correctional Institution in Ohio built two computers from spare parts obtained from PCs they were dismantling as part of a recycling program, then successfully connected them to the prison’s network. The scheme was exposed when IT staff noticed unusual Internet activity levels on ...
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