Scottish Convicts Turn PS3s and Computer Mice Into Illicit Cell Phone Chargers
An ingenuous bit of technology hacking by inmates has nonvoluntary staff at a UK prison to keep a close eyeball on computing machine equipment.
Prisoners at the Addiwell prison in Scotland discovered a way to charge their cell phones using a computer mouse and a PS3. By plugging the mice into the PS3 USB ports and manipulating the wires, the inmates discovered that they could supply power to their phones without the guards finding out.
A source at the prison house said that at the start, the prison staff couldn't work out why so many mice were active missing. It wasn't until they unconcealed some actually plugged into the PS3 consoles during cell searches that they realized what was going on. According to the source, the prison has instituted a policy which says that subsequently any session involving computers, the prisoners arse't leave until each the mice are accounted for.
HMP Addiwell is a privately run prison house assembled in 2008. Inmates supposedly refer to it as "Addison," after the Raddision hotel chain, because its facilities are more modern and comfortable than the typical Great Britain Prison. PS3 consoles are seemingly retributory one parting of this, as cells also have planar block out televisions, and en suite bathroom facilities.
Obviously, I'm not about to condone the prisoners behavior – they stole mice to power phones they weren't ever supposed to have – but I can't help simply represent a little impressed by their ingenuity. As sci-fi author William Gibson once said, "Wall Street [operating theatre in that case, the prison] finds its own uses for things."
Source: The Each day Tape via Geek
Source: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/scottish-convicts-turn-ps3s-and-computer-mice-into-illicit-cell-phone-chargers/
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