Playing with the OLPC

Playing with the OLPC

Posted Jan 8, 2007 3:17 UTC (Mon) by filteredperception (subscriber, #5692)
Parent article: Playing with the OLPC

If I were a member of a militia dominating a piece of territory and had the ability to steal some of these laptops, I would reflash the OS to be a kiosk system that booted straight into a local mapping software (effectively a copy of google earth/maps running from 'disk' cache). This kiosk system would presume the keyboard was hidden and not used by the end user, except for transmitting encrypted instant messages to other team members.

You can say the keyboard is too small to be useful, but I've seen plenty of strange people who seem to almost like using blackberrys.

Just a thought...

Now if there was some unrewritable rom which had a copy of wikipedia including the text of historical documents denouncing slavery, thuggery, and advocating liberty and education, then perhaps the damage from misappropriation would be mitigated (assuming some incontravertable way to boot said unrewritable application. I.e. the commanding officers have no way to disable the feature without destroying the device).

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