Notebook for prison inmates bought on eBay - 'Justice Tech Solutions Securebook' is locked down but has freedom-loving Linux
An eBay user bought the Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5, a locked-down prisoner PC, and completed a thorough teardown to turn it into an actually-usable GNU/Linux laptop.
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When you think of prison, you probably do not think of technology, and in fact, you may think of the lack thereof. However, a plethora of correctional facilities and inmates utilize technology, and not just that which is smuggled in. Laptops are great for educational, leisure, and other purposes, but they also must be safe for the correctional facility environment, which makes them a bit different from laptops we are used to. Thus, when Wenting Zhang somehow got their hands on one of these specialized prison laptops, it became an internet curiosity on X, formerly Twitter.
Yesterday, Zhang, who goes by @zephray_wenting on X, posted a picture of what appeared to be a fairly generic clear-shelled laptop with the explanation that they bought a prison laptop, and it is a bit more than generic. However, at first glance, the laptop is pretty boring, with no USB ports, no hard drive, and a BIOS password locking everything up upon boot. The first clue to figuring out exactly what this is is a model number NV116APNB, which can be tied to the Justice Tech Solutions (JTS) Securebook 5. This is an 11.6” transparent laptop powered by an Intel 8th Generation Quad-Core Celeron N3450 running at 2.2GHz and paired with 4GB of LPDDR3 2400MHz RAM.