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potential for abuse

Posted Feb 9, 2007 12:00 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: potential for abuse by k8to
Parent article: Bitfrost: the OLPC security model

A major communication cable going down can actually cause this.

Going to a different part of the country for a month with your laptop can also brickify it.

And a malfunctioning network adapter will also brickify your device.

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potential for abuse

Posted Feb 15, 2007 13:07 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]

Aren't these machines supposed to use some form of ad-hoc wireless mesh networking? Communication cables going down shouldn't be a huge problem, one would hope.