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

• gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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  • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨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?

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    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The devices should be returned to inmates immediately, prison administrators should then slap themselves in the face one time for implementing them poorly to begin with, slap themselves in the face several times for overreacting to a viral story without having any reason to believe there was an active or imminent problem with any of their inmates, and deliver a tooth-loosening punch to their own faces for thinking they could punish these inmates by taking away their education to cover their screw up.

      After that, hire a real IT person who knows what they’re doing by paying them decently allowing remote work and not drug testing, and then listen to them.

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      • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        i don’t think you understand how IT works… there will always be vulnerabilities… even the NSA probably has vulnerabilities… when found, these vulnerabilities need to be patched. i’m sure they’ll get their devices back; they just need to implement a fix

        none of this is perfect, but shit happens and all we can aim to do is minimise the damage when it does happen

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