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Zhang, an electrical engineer in Boston, decided to post about trying to unlock his Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5 on the social platform X. The thread went viral — also catching the attention of Washington corrections officials, who have used the device for college programming since 2020.

Of particular concern was an article about Zhang’s thread published on a hacker website that shared the default password for the underlying software that starts the laptop’s operating system, presenting what the Department of Corrections considered a security concern.

The department then announced Thursday, five days after Zhang’s viral post, that it would collect all secure laptops from incarcerated students statewide “to provide an immediate system update.” By Saturday, corrections staff had collected around 1,200 laptops, spokesperson Chris Wright said in an email.

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.” It wasn’t immediately clear whether other states whose corrections departments use Securebook 5 laptops have also pulled the devices.

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[-] [email protected] 104 points 4 months ago

They didn’t lose their laptop. They got taken to be updated because of a security breach

[-] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

Intentionally inflammatory and misleading headlines on Lemmy? Pshaw. The hell you say.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 4 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The community could make rules on what is acceptable to post or not though. And disallow websites that regularly mislead.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

And it should require copying the title from the article and not allow editorializing it (or only slightly).

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 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?

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