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Convicted Hacker Paralyses Prison Network. Duh.

1:12PM Chris Oaten | We can think of a whole bunch of things belonging firmly in the headslap category. There’s that recent silliness with iSnack 2.0, for starters. But this one strains plausability. It seems the management at a certain English prison thought it would be a good idea to save a few dollars on technical services by borrowing the skills of an inmate. Turns out the inmate was a convicted hacker. Left alone. With a computer. Duh. [Switched] via [Digg].
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Hacker Claims IPhone 3GS Encryption Is Dangerously Easy To Crack

12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | Noted iPhone security destroyer Jonathan Zdziarski has cracked the iPhone 3GS encryption security, which is to be expected, but the ease and speed with which he did it is worrisome. Zdziarski claims the iPhone 3GS is thus “useless” to businesses. More »
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Blind Phone ‘Swatter’ Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking

3:00AM Jason Chen | A 19-year-old who was part of a swatting group—hacking the phone system to get 911 to respond with a SWAT team to potentially dangerous situations in order to harass people—just got sentenced to 11 years in prison. More »