Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices.

liam070@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every prisoner who knew about that password

  Meanwhile, back in reality

  Wright confirmed no one incarcerated in Washington prisons had attempted to unlock their devices but said the decision was “made out of an abundance of caution.”

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• RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  an article about Zhang’s thread published on a hacker website that shared the default password

  Maybe jumping directly to the “snitches get stitches” part before bothering to spot an actual snitch is a bad idea? “That Zhang guy” was trying to break the thing open, not tattle on others trying to do it.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I honestly thought to myself that someone had to go and ruin it.

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