Norway’s inmates enjoy some of the world’s highest-quality correctional facilities. An unidentified inmate hacked the TV system at Halden Prison.
Time magazine called Halden the most humane prison in the world. Once hacked, inmates could use the state-of-the-art digital televisions to speak with one another and share pornography and other digital files. The prison officials only noted the hijacking of the prison televisions when their data usage levels spiked. Halden was designed for rehabilitation, as opposed to punishment, and is built to resemble the outside world as much as possible, with flat-screen TVs, mini-fridges, and “en suite” tiled bathrooms.
Halden’s deputy warden Jan Strømnes told Norway’s VG newspaper, “We examined the TV system for security and built it up again. Today, the inmates have only regular TV.”…..
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