"A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison 
sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated.

In 2006, Janosko managed to circumvent computer controls and use the machine to 
send e-mail and cull data on more than
1,100 Plymouth County prison employees. He gained access to sensitive 
information such as their dates of birth,
Social Security Numbers, telephone numbers, home addresses and employment 
records.

The computer he used was a so-called thin client computer that simply connected 
to another machine on the network and did not store any data itself"
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/185342/inmate_gets_18_months_for_hacking_prison_computer.html

I really like to see what those "computer controls" were...

Juha-Matti
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