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.
Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They didn’t lose their laptop. They got taken to be updated because of a security breach
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 8 months ago
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
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.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 months ago
and the alternative is…?
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not victimizing all of the student inmates because the prison invested in a poorly designed system that could potentially be exploited when none of the students have attempted that exploit or were likely even aware of it
pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 months ago
that’s not an alternative. i agree that’d be preferable, but given where the situation stands, what’s the concrete action to take to remedy the situation?
RampageDon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yea the title is extra click baity
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The article is news worthy but I downvoted the post due to the title being garbage.
WallEx@feddit.de 8 months ago
Like everything ad driven has to be.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 months ago
i’d say that it’s a security vulnerability, but breach implies it’s been used
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I see. That makes sense.
quindraco@lemm.ee 8 months ago
There was no security breach. Did you even read the summary, let alone the article? There wasn’t even an attempted breach.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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?
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s a vulnerability, not a breach. As you pointed out, no one attempted to breach it.
AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Intentionally inflammatory and misleading headlines on Lemmy? Pshaw. The hell you say.
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 8 months ago
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.
Kissaki@feddit.de 8 months ago
The community could make rules on what is acceptable to post or not though. And disallow websites that regularly mislead.
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
And it should require copying the title from the article and not allow editorializing it (or only slightly).
pop@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
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?