PS3 Poses Security Risk for European Prison
A prison in the United Kingdom has banned prisoners from using PlayStation 3′s during their incarceration due to security reasons.
Apparently, the PS3′s wireless connectivity and methods of communication (i.e. text messaging, voice chat, and video chat) could allow a prisoner to plan an escape. According to to a spokesperson for the European prision:
“PlayStation 3 consoles are barred on the grounds that they have the capability to send and receive radio signals as an integral part of the equipment,”
A report on the Guardian.co.uk revealed that prisoners at Rye Hill in Britain had already used the PS3′s messaging to communicate with somebody outside of the prison, which resulted in this ban. Sure, the prison could simply put a password on their wireless internet. But hey, what do we know.
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12 Responses to “PS3 Poses Security Risk for European Prison”
Or they could just not have it available or they could have gotten the 20GB units (didn’t have Wifi) or maybe even ask Sony for a specific one, or they could actually just ban the Mac Addresses of all the consoles, or block the ports that the PS3 uses, or a million bajillion other things… Where the heck is this prison? I need to apply for IT there.
Why the hell should prisoners have a PS3 anyway… they are in jail because they have done something bad, so they get a Ps3, nexxt time I want a console I’ll kill someone and go to prison xD
Prison Break is originally cancelled, but maybe with this new peace of informtion, they have another reason to continue the story.
What a bad rap! Pun intended
@joro550:
Yeah having PS3′s in prison is an incentive to do something bad. I guess the only reason not to go to jail is rape. They would not do stuff like that here in the US. (Well unless you are a terrorist) =)
thats funny.. you would figure prisons would put passwords on their wireless internet?
that has to be the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long time.
Thats its, prison is officially better than life outside. I have to wake up every morning to go to work, then finally get home to play games, but now in prison in the UK you get a PS3?…I’m going to murder a whole town of europians so i never get out of jail.
So if you commit a crime they reward you with a £300 game console?
This is stupid, Ian Huntley has a PS3 in his cell to keep him sane :@ He murdered two girls and is rewarded with a game console, they should force him suicidal!
And like your all pointing out, life inside is almost as good as outside
Give em’ a f***ing Wii, bore them to death
this would make a cool premise for a new ISP,
convict uses ps3 to create a prisonbreak, all hell breaks loose, etc.
you heard it here first…
I’ll start writing the code Solid, can i use your Idea? , lol
@ ThisIsFoxy
they dont get rewarded, they have those in areas to share them… so they have something to do.