On Apr 25, 2008, at 1:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is Software activation critical? If the XOs are deployed in the > poorest towns then there is small possibilities for theft and > robberies. In those small villages (with 100 families > approximately) all of them know each other: you can not enter or > leave the village without been noticed (or allowed). Those towns > are from 3,500 to 5,000 meters altitude and there is around 5,000 in > Peru. No young gangs there.
For what it's worth, the Peru implementation leads have very strong feelings to the contrary. In Arahuay, a mountaintop village in the middle of nowhere, a small satellite dish providing rudimentary telephone service was stolen _twice_ and never recovered. > well... some guys here will be more than happy to ask just $10 for > doing the same job (again my words come without any proud on them). You misunderstand the point of OLPC security. It isn't to make attacks infeasible, but to substantially raise the bar. As it stands, the security mechanisms the XO offers -- far from the full implementation of the Bitfrost spec -- are already superior to virtually all mainstream products I'm familiar with. -- Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://radian.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
