Prison Inmate Hacks Prison PC To Send Email, Watch Online Videos
We suspect things can get a bit boring behind bars, but hacking a computer system while you're already in jail for doing something illegal? Not exactly the brightest move. "Frank" Janosko is the guy at fault, and he was just sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Boston for "abusing a computer provided by the Plymouth County Correctional Facility." The PC had been setup to assist the inmates with legal research, but obviously Frank wasn't interested in learning more about his rights.
In '06, the inmate somehow managed to hack around the preventative firewalls and safeguards so to use the machine to "send e-mail and cull data on more than 1,100 Plymouth County prison employees." What's wild is that he managed to gather extremely sensitive data such as DOBs and social security numbers from the machine, even snagging some home addresses all the while. One may wonder why all of this information was so readily available at all, and one may also wonder why he didn't arrange for his escape via email.
Either way, Frank's going to be paying the price for his little run with fun, and when he serves three additional years of supervised release, he won't be able to use any Internet-connected device without approval of his probation officer. Ouch.
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>> One may wonder why all of this information was so readily available at all, and one may also wonder why he didn't arrange for his escape via email. I could change the payroll system at will, but I don't. Being a hacker doesn't make you a criminal or guilty of further criminal thoughts... even though this guy was... a criminal. |
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Haha, I wonder what constitutes as hacking? Maybe he just figured out the admin password...most likely "1234" |
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lol "1234'? I have to go change the combo to my luggage now! I have to think they weren't able to find out if he sold or let out the people's personal info if he only got additional years of probation added. You have to assume he is only getting punished for doing prohibited things while incarcerated. |
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There was probably a folder on the desktop that said "Do not open" lol just so happened to have all the prison data in that folder lol It's not hard to find information on a network when you on a computer that is a member of the network. Even if they don't share all of there folders, it's not hard to get access to ever single file on every single computer if their security is not setup right lol |
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Lol, most likely. Great way to hide something, just label it "Top Secret" or "Confidential". I like to label all my secret folders with complicated names such as, "Classic fluctuation test of Luria and Delbruck in use of a bacteriophage that is unable to lysogenize the host" Keeps my gf out of my porn stash! |
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I give my folders a blank name, no folder icon, and hidden. Good luck finding that! lol |
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Oh and, as for using the email and getting internet access etc. He probably just used a proxy server and whoever setup their stuff didn't think to disable that ability d'oh! |
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