News Notebook for prison inmates bought on eBay - 'Justice Tech Solutions Securebook' is locked down but has freedoom-loving Linux

[Admin]

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 Linux laptop.

Notebook for prison inmates bought on eBay - 'Justice Tech Solutions Securebook' is locked down but has freedoom-loving Linux : Read more

 

[justicetech92]

Hi Team! I produce that laptop, funny to see this happening. Just a point of clarification, it did originally have an SSD and OS (linux based Endless OS usually). The seller here was a government auction retiring their Securebook 5 devices and upgrading to the Securebook 6, so they removed all the SSDs from the devices themselves. The devices are usually used off dock and only docked when needing to access a USB port or network.

 

[TheyCallMeContra]

Hi Team! I produce that laptop, funny to see this happening. Just a point of clarification, it did originally have an SSD and OS (linux based Endless OS usually). The seller here was a government auction retiring their Securebook 5 devices and upgrading to the Securebook 6, so they removed all the SSDs from the devices themselves. The devices are usually used off dock and only docked when needing to access a USB port or network.

writer of the piece here- good to know! thanks for the insight.

 

[antijingoist]

Hi Team! I produce that laptop, funny to see this happening. Just a point of clarification, it did originally have an SSD and OS (linux based Endless OS usually). The seller here was a government auction retiring their Securebook 5 devices and upgrading to the Securebook 6, so they removed all the SSDs from the devices themselves. The devices are usually used off dock and only docked when needing to access a USB port or network.

Hi!
Any chance of a commercial/ home version for those of us that still like the clear plastic of the 90's but aren't arrested?

 

[usertests]

Hi!
Any chance of a commercial/ home version for those of us that still like the clear plastic of the 90's but aren't arrested?

You should steal one. Either way, you win!

 

[abufrejoval]

You should steal one. Either way, you win!

Thanks for the laugh!

But I gess the reason they are transparent is that you don't get to keep it and that these get passed around and could therefore far too easily be used to pass things between prisoners. So the transparency is there to raise the bar a bit, enabling guards to check for obvious 'inserts'.

 

[usertests]

Thanks for the laugh!

But I gess the reason they are transparent is that you don't get to keep it and that these get passed around and could therefore far too easily be used to pass things between prisoners. So the transparency is there to raise the bar a bit, enabling guards to check for obvious 'inserts'.

No crumbs or shivs in this keyboard.

 

[antijingoist]

The broken displays can be sharp tho.

Perhaps people are better than we give them credit for. 🤷🏻😂

 

[parkerthon]

Prisons have a crazy range of custom electronics and other items they buy that have things like clear shells and are highly tamper/mod resistant. I recently learned more of these types of things from a guy that brought a crt tv from a prison in for a smash melee tournament. There are collectors out there. The clear plastic is indeed to resist contraband trafficking which of course still happens.