Jail chaos as lag hacker is left in charge of computer system

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"A jailed hacker shut down a prison's entire computer system - after bosses gave him the job of programming it.

Douglas Havard, 27, serving six years for stealing up to £6.5million using forged credit cards over the internet,
was approached after governors wanted to create an internal TV station but needed a special computer program written.

He was left unguarded and hacked into the system's hard drive at Ranby Prison, near Retford, Notts.
Then he set up a series of passwords so no one else could get into the system.

The blunder emerged a week after the Sunday Mirror revealed how an inmate at the same jail managed to get a key cut 
that opened every door."
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/09/27/conputer-meltdown-115875-21703149/

But how can this be true....
 
Juha-Matti

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