What, no blacklisted hash?

First off, this is the first time I'd ever opened up this laptop and seen "cleared orphaned node" as the notification, insteaf of blocked nodes.

This laptop, I should point out, once belonged to someone else. I kept their segment sheltered with the rest of the Windows OS. I don't know what it's like there; I assume, if I booted into Windows, it would come up as a picture-perfect image of the previous system as it belonged to the previous owner.

I had reason to believe this laptop was a loaner. I side-loaded Ubuntu onto it, both to make it untracable and to practice Linux so that I wouldn't be lying on my resume. This has been entirely successful, and has the added benefit of being completely removed from social media. It can't access my google, facebook, etc. Bluetooth wasn't consistent, though. A few things failed to initialize every time. access to certain features seemed restricted, or I couldn't root access in certain ways. I'm a tinkerer, I admit that, and linux is very friendly to tinkerers. There were still things I couldn't do or undo, including loading any other OS. Ubuntu was the only one that stuck.

So...will I still get "blacklisted hash" warnings when I boot it up? I don't know.

The reason I suspect it is different is because I got in touch with my old boss last week, telling him I was healthy, and asking him about employment. He might have put a note in to HR, letting them know I was OK. HR would then deactivate my account, confident that I'd have no reason to return. With the removal of my account would be decommissioning of my hardware. They might have remotely deactivated/disabled this device's protections, now that it is accounted for and not lost, but also not of any interest to the company.

Here's hoping that's the case, that they sent a remote unlock.
The more likely scenario? They removed THEIR end of the blacklist, but this computer hadn't caught up, whenever it happened. But I could, maybe, start testing the limits of this computer again. See if the bluetooth works, or if I can get a reliable video-out while charging. 

The timing of the blacklists disappearing aligning with messaging my old boss, it's a lovely coincidence. But now, I feel like this laptop is free. Free for me to use!