Unfortunate timing with everyone pushing BIOS updates to cater for the secure boot issue, but if you’re updating HP devices, be aware of issues being reported - theregister.com/personal-tec… #SecureBook #BIOSUpdates #MSIntune #HP

Yep! As I understand it the "Securebook 6" by "Justice Tech Solutions" is the pretty wide standard. I followed a guy who would take them (used) in bulk and repurpose them. By default they don't have any wireless antennas installed for any protocol

It is a JTS SecureBook 5, used purely in federal prisons throughout the US. Back in March a handful of them managed to break free and end up on eBay. After some hacking, this is the result! You'd need to travel back in time to get one at this point. Only 100 made it out

Are you hacking on a SecureBook? 😂 Am I the only one that wasn't able to get one?!?

Now that I finally received the right antennas, Wi-Fi 6 is working in the prisonbook securebook

«لپ‌تاپ فراری» برای ۱٬۲۰۰ زندانی آمریکایی دردسرساز شد‌‌‌‌ 🔹مهندسی کنجکاو با تلاش برای باز کردن قفل یک لپ‌تاپ دست دوم مخصوص زندان، به طور ناخواسته باعث هرج‌و‌مرج کامل برای زندانیان دانشجو در سراسر ایالت واشنگتن شد. او ازطریق فروشگاه eBay برای خرید لپ تاپ موردبحث اقدام کرده بود. مشخص نیست که لپ‌تاپ چگونه از زندان خارج شده است. 🔹زمانی که ونتینگ ژانگ موفقیت‌آمیز‌بودن تلاش‌های خود برای جیلبریک لپ‌تاپ را به صورت آنلاین شرح داد، دومینویی از واکنش‌ها را به راه انداخت که منجر به مصادره‌ی بیش از ۱٬۲۰۰ لپ‌تاپ از زندانیان در اواسط ترم تحصیلی آن‌ها شد. 🔹لپ‌تاپ‌های مخصوص زندان را که Securebook 5 نام دارند، شرکت Justice Tech Solutions طراحی و تولید می‌کند. 🔹زندانیان با این لپ‌تاپ‌ها که با هدف جلوگیری از دسترسی‌های غیرمجاز، کاراییشان با اقداماتی چون حذف پورت‌های USB و سیستم‌عاملی خاص محدود شده است، می‌توانند دوره‌های آموزشی را بگذرانند. 🔹تنها هدف ژانگ باز کردن قابلیت‌های لپ‌تاپ دست‌ دومش بود، اما پست‌هایی که در شبکه‌ی اجتماعی ایکس درمورد روند کار منتشر کرد، عواقب ناخواسته‌ای به همراه داشتند. 🔹آموزش‌های ژانگ، رمز عبور پیش‌فرض مدیریتی این سری لپ‌تاپ‌ها را فاش کرد. این اتفاق به‌طور بالقوه به دیگران اجازه می‌داد تا تمامی لپ‌تاپ‌های Securebook مشابه را هک کنند و همین کافی بود تا واحد اصلاح و بازپروری مجرمینِ ایالت واشنگتن وارد حالت بحران شود. 🔹اداره‌ی کل زندان‌های واشنگتن با سرعت و «از روی احتیاط فراوان»، فراخوانی کامل را در زندان‌های سراسر ایالت آغاز کرد. طی چند روز، افسران حدود ۱٬۲۰۰ لپ‌تاپ را از زندانی‌های دانشجویی که در میانه‌ی کلاس‌ها و آماده‌سازی امتحانات نهایی بودند، ضبط کردند. 🔹این اقدام، دانشجویانی که از طریق برنامه‌ی دانشگاه پوگت سوند و کالج‌های محلی مشغول تحصیل بودند را دچار سردرگمی کرد. 🔹به‌گفته‌ی دانشجویان، درباره‌ی زمان دسترسی مجدد به دستگاه‌های جمع‌آوری‌شده و کارهایی که روی آن‌ها انجام می‌گیرد، به‌ آن‌ها اطلاعاتی داده نشده است. مقامات زندان هم‌چنان بر این باورند که این تصمیم برای مقابله با خطرات امنیتی بالقوه ضرورت داشته است. 🔹 ژانگ در این باره گفت: «برای آن‌هایی که تحت تأثیر قرار گرفته‌اند متأسفم. اگر می‌دانستم، هرگز پست‌ها منتشر نمی‌کردم» 🚀 @TheZoomit

An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. When Wenting Zhang bought a clear plastic laptop on eBay, he had no idea about the chain of events he would kick off. The device turned out to be a secure computer used for jail and prison education, and he was initially unable to get past a black login screen. That’s because the laptop was working the way it was supposed to. Many typical features, such as a USB port, were missing because the device is designed to restrict users’ ability to communicate with the outside world. 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. “DOC recognizes how crucial educational programming is and we do everything we can to avoid disruption to classes,” Wright said in an email. Students react Students said they were given little information about when and if the devices would be returned, and many wondered if they’d lose access to the work saved on the laptops, which need to be placed into a dock to upload or download information. Students enrolled in community colleges also expressed concern that they lost access to their devices immediately before winter quarter finals. Steven Pawlak, who’s incarcerated at Washington Corrections Center in Shelton, said the laptop issued to him in January at the beginning of his first college course has been a huge help. While he meets with his Centralia College instructor and fellow students twice a week, he works exclusively on the laptop, as the teacher has all the students doing math problems using Excel spreadsheets rather than by hand. “We already have computers,” he said his instructor told him. “You don’t need to be one.” After his laptop was collected last week, Pawlak is frustrated because he doesn’t know when he’ll get it back. “If this is how my first class goes, I have no idea what the rest will be like,” he said. Students enrolled in the bachelor’s program through the University of Puget Sound, in collaboration with the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS), were particularly frustrated because they’re in the final semester of their program. “This is a critical moment because students in our BA program are preparing to graduate and finish research and writing for their capstone projects,” said Tanya Erzen, faculty director and former executive director of FEPPS. “It’s already a struggle to conduct research without access to the internet or databases, and this will only exacerbate the situation.” Several women at Gig Harbor’s Washington Correctional Center for Women reported that they were placed on lockdown Friday while correctional officers came to collect the laptops. They were told the laptops needed an update, but “they wouldn’t come in like it was a raid for a simple systems update,” said Lisa Kanamu, one of the prospective FEPPS graduates. She’s not looking forward to the possibility of having the hand write her papers again. “Can you imagine writing a 12-page paper and needing to make significant changes on page two? You have to rewrite the entire paper,” she said. Other students in a community college coding and web design program said they were informed web development classes were canceled until further notice. Security concerns Wright said the department was concerned students could use the default administrative password to reset the laptops and “remove the security framework,” allowing them to install new operating systems and “override all security protocols.” Securebooks, like most prison tech, are programmed to only boot up from the operating system that’s installed on them, said Jessica Hicklin, the chief technology officer at Unlocked Labs, a St. Louis education tech nonprofit that uses Securebooks and other Justice Tech hardware. That operating system is set up so the user can only access certain programs and files. “Most corrections departments are nervous about incarcerated users having full access to administrative functions of the operating system,” she said. Hicklin, who’s formerly incarcerated, said the Washington officials’ decision to pull the laptops was unnecessary given the limited amount of potential for actual harm. “As long as the network is properly secured, then there is no real credible security threat,” Hicklin said. But former corrections officials from Washington and other states found the decision reasonable, given the possible security concerns. The man who made the devices said there’s little someone inside could actually do with a hacked Securebook. They’d need to fashion a USB port, be able to install another operating system, and get access to a docking station, said Jeremy Schwartz, Justice Tech president. Even when the devices are docked, they’re not connected to the wider internet. “A lot of states actually felt very good when they got into the technical details of the levels of security that were there,” he said, noting that the work of outside hackers couldn’t be replicated in a prison environment. “That’s why it went viral.” So how does a prison laptop end up on eBay? The laptop that Zhang bought came from a state whose corrections department contracts with a Milwaukee-based nonprofit to dispose of its old laptops. But instead of recycling the devices, the organization resold them, selling out of 100 Securebooks after Zhang’s post went viral. It’s not uncommon to find personal tablets from prison tech companies on reseller sites. In some places, incarcerated people pay for their own music and communication devices and are allowed to take them when they’re released. But it’s much more unusual for secure laptops to find their way to the internet marketplace. Justice Tech only sells devices directly to colleges, correctional agencies and other organizations that work with incarcerated learners, not to individuals, Schwartz said. Stacy Burnett, who oversees a program at research organization ITHAKA that allows incarcerated people to access research materials, said many prison officials have done the best they can in building technology infrastructure, but security concerns sometimes require them to shut everything down. “In those instances,” she said, “the only line of defense is to confiscate student devices until the problem is diagnosed, isolated, and resolved.” “It can take months, and creates considerable disruption for the students and the colleges or vocational program providers.” Washington corrections officials said they’re working to minimize disruptions for incarcerated learners by expediting delivery of new Securebooks in the next few weeks, backing up student work and increasing lab time on desktop computers. The department also expects students from the women’s prison bachelor’s program to be able to earn their degrees on time.

This particular prison securebook is missing the Wi-Fi. So I'm going to add one! I've got to take the board to work where I have a professional reflow oven, I'll do that there

Well unfortunately, seems like the inevitable happened with the Securebook with everything going viral. seattletimes.com/seattle-new…

朝8時から郵便が来たと思ったらSecurebook 5が届いた。ムショPCだ

Atlas OS mod works fine on the prison securebook 5. Love it. Now I'm just goofing around

Im quite surprised how Virtualbox runs on this low power securebook CPU. Its kind of impressive, XP runs fairly well

The usb is working on the prison securebook 5 now 😁

Time to hack in a USB port on the securebook. Will make it far easier to use

Awww this one securebook a cute little pawww 🥺

Test fitting USB A on the Securebook 5 prison laptop. Fits like a glove!

In case you wanna buy a prison-approved with a transparent case laptop... justicetechsolutions.com/pro… Interesting the EndlessJusticeOS option... worldpossiblejustice.org/lay… Some FCC goodies: fcc.report/FCC-ID/2AS4KJTS-S… fcc.report/FCC-ID/2AS4KJTS-S… fcc.report/FCC-ID/2AS4KJTS-S… #SecureBook

After screwing with this thing 50 different ways to Sunday, The securebook works on my inland SSD

Notebook for prison inmates bought on eBay - 'Justice Tech Solutions Securebook' is locked down but has freedoom-loving Linux trib.al/NrO9aNf

@dosdude1 are you following the SecureBook 5 hacking process? Some of us who frequent VCF East have hit a stopgap with the bios @techknight2 is having trouble with the efi checksums, we have been unable to produce a bios without the Hard Drive Changed error