Many ordinary objects could be turned into weapons or otherwise misused by people with ingenuity and nothing to lose. That's why, as we've noted in the past, there's an entire industry that produces ordinary household and office products for prison environments.
This includes computers. Zephray Wenting purchased a prison laptop named the Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5 on eBay. The laptop is encased in a transparent plastic shell. It has no hard drive or USB port. When turned on, the laptop asks for a password. Wenting opened the case and partially disassembled the machine, but has had no luck so far hacking the password.
You can read a complete exploration on Twitter or a detailed and informed summary on Hack-A-Day.
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Thanks Miss C! You learn something new every day. The majority of my twatter thread reading had always been for general levity and I didn't miss it that much. Now I have that time suck back.
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That looks like a BIOS password screen. The default for the most popular, generic password is 'AMI' . Here is a link to other, default passwords. https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000451.htm This could happen if they wiped the BIOS. Once the BIOS is opened up, it will tell you how the computer boots and what can be attached.. My guess is that it used some network device and as well as storing everything on a network.
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Here's the Threadreader version.
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Oops! I hadn't realized that. I'm usually logged into Twitter.
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Well, I can't read the thread because Mr. Musk now denies that to everyone who doesn't subscribe to his content and that's never going to happen. I did look at the Justice Tech site and the Securebook 5 has been replaced by the '6'. That comes with a hard drive controlled directly by the system BIOS. It also allows USB access, but only if attached to a docking port. I'm sure that just like most computers used in sensitive environments, the hard drive was removed before it was released to the general public.
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