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Bought a Prison Laptop on eBay
- username3 3y ago[flagged]
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- evanjrowley 3y agoPrison laptops are clear so the insides can be checked for threats, contraband, etc. I wonder if they do the same with the source code.
- DoreenMichele 3y agoThe thread contains multiple tweets about how hard it was to remove the password prompt, so I'm guessing "yes."
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoThat the bootloader is hard to bypass says nothing about whether the bureau of prisons has checked the source code. It seems to me unlikely they have.
- reaperman 3y agoSuper unlikely they audited it. But also what's the risk? Generally they only care about prisoners getting things in or out of the prison without the blessing of prison staff. Prisons also tend to be able to afford to be reactive, rather than proactive. If a new method of smuggling is created, the prison staff will learn about it eventually and deal with it at that point, by ensuring that only they control what comes in/out using that method.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoOh certainly. I was only commenting on the flawed logic of the comment I responded to.
- jojobas 3y agoFor what exactly? You reckon MS would package dark web messaging so that prison kids could communicate?
- wilted-iris 3y agohttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761548861896606014.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761548861896606014.html
- 38 3y agoThank God. Twitter logged out is a piece of shit, and they are purposefully gimping the API to make nitter awful too. Fuck Twitter.
- haunter 3y agoHate the user more than the tool. I know the audience is there and you want impressions but Twitter was never meant for long form content like this. It’s a blog post tweeted in chunks. Probably it would reach far less people if it was posted on a niche personal blog so I can understand people doing it but I think it’s not a Twitter problem per se.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoTwitter's long ass posts suck egg. Twitter threads should be readable. They were and they were fine and good. It was great having content broken up. It was great seeing reactions to individual sections. It should not made impossible to see some's Twitter theads. Get in the sea.
- tbrownaw 3y ago> was great having content broken up. Having each paragraph preemptively separated from its context was certainly great for entertainment, but maybe not so much for reasoned discussion.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoOn the contrary, Twitter's threads to me are one of the greatest enhancements to discussion we've ever had. It's quite clear what specifically someone responds to with length-limited tweets. The discussion naturally expands into a tree of refining arguments. Where-as in most text mediums, there's no direct pointers telling us specifically what someone is referring to; it's implicit context we the reader have to infer. If the person even is making a targeted real reply in the first place, isn't just soapboxing. The ability to direct arguments & contestations clearly is far advanced over regular text by the hypermedia form for Twitter. Its wild to me that we haven't rebuilt more discussion systems to generate structure.
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- hakdbha 3y agoTwitter
- urbandw311er 3y agoWe should start a “TT;DR” thing. (Twitter Thread, didn’t read)
- NikkiA 3y ago'Couldn't Read' more like
- krasin 3y agoYoutube video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vziYLMpl4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8vziYLMpl4
- wtracy 3y agoIn case anyone else was wondering why this would even exist, it's for education in rehabilitation programs: https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2022/08/18/secure-laptops-transform-correctional-education/ https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2022/08/18/secure-laptops... "The laptops contain standard Microsoft Office applications, a link to the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) Learning Network, and pre-loaded approved bookmarks. This gives students access to Internet sites approved by academic instructors as appropriate for research."
- FerretFred 3y agoIn that case it would probably be good to issue to politicians - it might cut down on allegedly accidental leaks and would be of little immediate use to a thief who might "find" it on a train.
- stavros 3y agoIf this were issued to politicians and I saw it on a train, I'd think "wow, state secrets" and it'd immediately scream "high value" to me.
- indrora 3y agoThen run them with only some variant of ChromeOS or similar on it. Root FS is immutable, all content goes over a wireguard secured network connection. No network? No files. "What do you mean you can't get in? It says here you're trying to access content just fine... You said you're where? Moscow? I'm sorry sir but we can't risk that."
- jaynetics 3y agoJustice Tech Solutions offers a version of this laptop that has the "Endless Justice" OS preinstalled. This is a derivative of the Endless Linux distro. What I found amusing about this (apart from the involuntarily dystopian name) is that it apparently has dozens of games preinstalled, so there are probably a few convicts playing solitaire in class, just like normal people do. https://www.worldpossiblejustice.org/layer-1-securebooks/endless-justice-content https://www.worldpossiblejustice.org/layer-1-securebooks/end...
- HenryBemis 3y agoI feel that 99% of the population that learned to use a PC in the 90s and 00s learned how to master the mouse via Solitaire!
- stop50 3y agoThat was why it was developed for
- belval 3y agoThanks for that, I learned something today! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire
- mdrzn 3y ago"According to Microsoft telemetry, Solitaire was among the three most-used Windows programs and FreeCell was seventh, ahead of Word and Microsoft Excel." Damn! Throwback
- cbold 3y agoAt university I made some money on the side giving courses in HTML, Excel etc. One person that was mandated by an employer to follow such a course had extreme trouble using the mouse. I opened Solitaire and showed quickly how to click and drag. The person in question had to confess he also did not know how to play Solitaire.
- userbinator 3y agoAnd at least for the BIOS version I have (and the BIOS V06 available on the website), there is a default password. Unfortunately no mention of lkwpeter, AMI_SW, or aLLy -- those would be my instinctive guesses. However, I'm puzzled that he didn't just try to clear the default password from the BIOS image before flashing it, or try a BIOS image from a different model with similar hardware; Apollo Lake SoC with an IT8987 is not exactly a rare combination --- Clevo W515PU uses that, for example. Anyone else have guesses on what the OEM/ODM for this was? The APL09_MB_V10 identifier makes me lean towards LCFC/Compal, but the complete lack of component designators is odd, and Compal mobos are usually blue. Quanta and Wistron tend to go for green mobos, from what I've seen. Can't rule out Pegatron either.
- Animats 3y agoYou can buy these things new.[1] They only connect to a custom "docking station". No standard ports. WiFi is available. [1] https://justicetechsolutions.com/ https://justicetechsolutions.com/
- _def 3y ago> So I quickly connected a USB Hub onto it. I decided to use the USB signal on the touchpad connector, because I am a bit too lazy to figure out the pinout of the dock connector. I love this so much. I'm totally a hardware noob but even I thought "there has to be USB somewhere right". This whole inspection is amazing and shows that it's very much possible to take back control over your hardware. Sure, this is specifically locked down for prisons, but you could also think of it like a consumer device from a dystopian future. Let's fight against that together with libre open source hardware & software projects.
- userbinator 3y agobut you could also think of it like a consumer device from a dystopian future A closer approximation to that, which also exists today, would be a smartphone.
- sva_ 3y ago> The specs are: Celeron N3450 + 4GB SKhynix LPDDR3 + Intel Wireless 7625 Aren't they being punished enough by being in prison? Jokes aside, with such hardware and a lot of time on your hands you could really dig into practicing your low-level development skills, given there is some compiler.
- userbinator 3y agoLooking at CPU benchmarks shows that one being roughly the same performance as this other common CPU that's 8 years older, but uses around 1/20th the power: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N3450+%40+1.10GHz&id=2907 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Celeron+N3450... https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+Q6600+%40+2.40GHz https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core2+Quad+Q6... Those who had systems with the latter would certainly not have considered them slow. Netbooks at the time often had this: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Atom+N270+%40+1.60GHz&id=614 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Atom+N270+%40... For a long time, my daily driver was this: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+4+2.40GHz&id=1067 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+4+2.4... I can say that the above was more than sufficient to do native development, audio+video conferencing, watching videos, listening to music, as well as the usual office tasks of email, documents, image editing, IM, and the like. Software inefficiency has simply expanded to fill all available CPU performance.
- rwmj 3y agoTechmoan did a video about prison TVs and radios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3PfsndsihY
- renewiltord 3y agojustice1
- vldr 3y agoI expected the escape key to have been removed.
- bcrl 3y agoWhy does the service formerly known as Twitter take 4 seconds to load that link for me?