> 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.

Not exactly a non-story… one women’s prison was put on lockdown so the laptops could be seized. I get that a lot of Americans like their carceral state really carceral, but the article makes it pretty clear that just having the default password doesn’t get you a lot with a device that has no usable ports.

Which they didn't need to do in such a disrupting manner. Story