Forget Tunnels, Today’s Jailbreaks Need Hackers

A prison warden’s worst nightmare came true a few years ago: A freak power surge opened every death row inmate’s door at the same time. All ended well, but a security engineer recounts the anecdote to the Huffington Post to highlight a scary vulnerability of modern prisons controlled by computers:…

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Forget Tunnels, Today’s Jailbreaks Need Hackers

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