So I don't it being relevant who runs the prison providing it abides by standards. What is more important is the political recognition that putting the time into ensuring people don't reoffend will pay off in the future.
I believe a far bigger issue is that the US has the most fucked up justice system anywhere in the western world.
It is more likely that this guy left their services and applied some of the tricks he learned to a commercial purpose - writing a library that allows various spyware / adware libraries to hijack clicks and traffic and inject their own affiliate ids / ads / search results into the response.
No one says it's a good or honourable thing but the primary motivation appears to be money and nothing else. It's still a security threat. It's still utterly reprehensible. But it seems to be the guy enriching his own pocket.
Besides, if it really was Mossad, they'd have done a much better job.
If it was really Mossad they'd be installing the code onto PCs used by their enemies for intelligence gathering. They wouldn't be installing it onto new PCs so they could popup ads for penis enlargement pills.
Audiophiles are clearly idiots. A rich seam of idiots with a lot of money that companies specialise in exploiting by selling expensive tat to.
As for this Sony thing, the impression appears to be it would offer absolutely no benefit whatsoever to playback though I guess it's conceivable that recording artists and the like would find a use for it if it reduces radio interference when they're trying to record something.
Whatever tenuous reason they might have for a signature, it's not a very good one. If they cared for the strength of their contract they would do the minimum necessary to verify it was the person with authorisation to use the card.
As for the cashier, that's part of the reason for chip and pin. It takes the authentication and authorisation out of their hands. Either the transaction goes through or it doesn't but at least some security is applied.
So it's hardly surprising if the US receives the highest amount of fraud. It's trivial to skim the details because it's all stored on the magstripe, stores hold the info in arcane systems, there is no authentication and there is no financial burden on the store if fraud occurs.
Chip and pin isn't perfect but it's FAR better than the US system. In Europe every business has a chip and pin device. Restaurants have a portable chip and pin device. Supermarkets and stores have one at the cashier. You pay by sticking the card in the device and authenticating with it. There is less scope for the card to be skimmed because the card never leaves the customer's hands. There is less scope for a malicious store because authenticating and authorisation is via a secure payment system.
Ideally cards wouldn't even have a mag stripe any more. Give businesses 5 years to replace their decrepit equipment and banks to upgrade their ATMs and then get rid of them. Chip and pin and NFC cover the same use cases and provide better security into the bargain.
The problem with the Linux community is that never seems to sink in. I watched this same thing play over and over through the years. Criticize Linux or a part thereof and the wagons circle. Suggest that an app or desktop isn't usable and the RTFM brigade leaps out to justify the brokenness. Propose or implement change and watch the reactions become outright hostile. This is most obvious with recent changes to SysV to systemd and X11 to Wayland but it's nothing new.
The Linux community can be its own worst enemy sometimes. It's like some like Linux being a niche and have the siege mentality to go with it.
Redhat has a lot of control over the marketplace and the direction of software packages.
They have a lot of control over their own dist. What other dists do is entirely up to them. Which is why Red Hat uses yum / rpm and other dists do their own thing.
The fact that other dists have moved to systemd may be due to the fact that SysVInit has recognized issues, particularly when supporting modern desktop / server environments and by comparison to other operating systems (Windows, Solaris etc.) and so they've chosen to switch.
The Amiga only really got a proper graphics card when 3rd parties like Picasso stepped in to provide one and even then "proper" only means analogous to Cirrus Logic style cards that appeared for Windows 3.1. Hardly GPU in the modern sense.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.