They didn’t lose their laptop. They got taken to be updated because of a security breach
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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Intentionally inflammatory and misleading headlines on Lemmy? Pshaw. The hell you say.
Not a Lemmy issue. Click bait unfortunately works to drive views through all social media platforms.
The thing I love is being able to click into the comments first to see the auto-generated summary. Prevents the site from getting my traffic.
The community could make rules on what is acceptable to post or not though. And disallow websites that regularly mislead.
And it should require copying the title from the article and not allow editorializing it (or only slightly).
I never realize what responses like this add to the discussion.
do you have any other community platform free from clickbaits? do you need a pat on the back cuz you think you're immune to clickbaits? what's the point?
Calling it a security breach is a bit of a stretch, to be fair. The company that issued them never changed the default BIOS password, so inmates could gain admin control over them if they wanted. Changing default passwords is like the most basic Help Desk 1 training.
I can almost guarantee that the company is owned by someone who also has direct ties to the prison’s leadership, and they spun up the corporation just to issue (and profit from) the laptops. Because there’s no way that an experienced IT team would allow 1200 laptops to walk out the door with default passwords.
Having root access to that computer means they can do a lot of throngs they aren’t supposed to. I fail to see this as anything but a security breach for this.
i’d say that it’s a security vulnerability, but breach implies it’s been used
I see. That makes sense.
Yea the title is extra click baity
The article is news worthy but I downvoted the post due to the title being garbage.
Like everything ad driven has to be.
They were taken for reasons that inmates had nothing to do with, they have not been replaced, and it's unclear when they'll be returned. Inmates who are enrolled in college courses are having to handwrite papers that are due soon.
Its the us slavery system. The laptops will be returned whenever something happens to some prisoner(s) that gets successfully sold as tragic to the masses. I hope there is some young attractive white mother who was taking classes on the laptops and is about to finish her sentence, or else they're gonna be waiting a while.
There was no security breach. Did you even read the summary, let alone the article? There wasn't even an attempted breach.
There is a breach as he released the default password, but no one attempted to breach it, as in no one tried to use the default password on their computer. Did you even try to understand what you read?
It's a vulnerability, not a breach. As you pointed out, no one attempted to breach it.
Lol using a "master password" is the "security concern"
Its going to get leaked again and they still won't criticise company lol
These prison supply companies are typically owned by fellow prison guards who want to grift the state, which is why they won't criticize them.
TIL that Washington state has at least 1200 incarcerated students.
I hope they use unique, random passwords for each device this time. Not that I'm rooting for Corrections, but this is educational time that's being lost
You should be rooting for “corrections” rather than imprisonment.
Seems to be an overreaction. What are the prisoners gonna with the bios password? Install an alternate OS? But there is no usb port, and the prisoners can't solder one themselves without, well, a soldering kit. Boot from network? But it may not have a wifi card.
Nice how they call it a "Securebook" when it has a static default password.
I mean, shouldn't they better call it a "High IQ System"?
B-)
Where do I get a rad, clear laptop like that?? That looks sick.
Get a MacBook from the early 2000's
Thanks for changing that title, OP.
Good call, the OG title was terrible.
An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.
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