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On 5/4/2017 3:02 PM, Jacob's PC Tune-up wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CY4PR14MB179763E482E39A6B316E94C6CDEA0@CY4PR14MB1797.namprd14.prod.outlook.com">
<p>> <span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">They
don’t have internet access to find solutions on Stack
Overflow.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Data
dumps from all the the Stack Exchange sites can be downloaded
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://archive.org/details/stackexchange"
moz-do-not-send="true">
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange</a></span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">It's
not all of the internet, but it should be useful for most
questions.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-QwertyChouskie</span></p>
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We are hoping to do this, and I actually spent a few weeks getting
the offline version setup with search.<br>
<br>
The issue is that the prison administration does not want anything
brought inside that contains information on how to exploit computer
systems. Plus they make the usual error of non-technical people and
conflate the term "hack" with exploitation, so that a reference to
"Hacker News" or "Hacker Noon" or a casual reference to hacking
something will flag their search algorithms. It is a non-trivial
effort to remove from a public archive actual articles on
exploitation, while "sanitizing" safe articles from their search
algorithms. The rules are a bizarre mix of legitimate safety
concerns, with CYA excesses administered by people who really know
nothing about computers. Yet I have some sympathy for them, the
taxpayers are not exactly willing to fund computer consultants who
understand this stuff to review what strange efforts like mine want
to do.<br>
<br>
:rkent<br>
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