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An attempt to start some discussion on the OLPC Wiki on the possible hackability of the laptop. I don’t buy the particular scenario outlined here – yes, I can imagine the machines becoming zombies, but I don’t think unbanked developing world users are lik
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OLPC page on security and usability
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Archives of OLCP Security discussion list
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Viacom sends out 100,000 cease and desist letters, including one for a completely inoccuous and geeky video shot by Jim Moore. John Palfrey looks at the possible implications for Viacom and YouTube in overreaching in trying to use DMCA to remove “copyrigh
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Ejovi points to a Japanese magazine with an overtly racist cover, which is being sold on Amazon and in many convenience stores. (It’s subsequently been removed)
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Joi comments on Ejovi’s post on a racist Japanese magazine. Joi wonders if this isn’t a sign of complex, deeper issues with xenophobia in Japan, pointing to the history of Japanese/Korean tensions
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John Bracken points out that we can consider this to be the first West African Super Bowl
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February 4th, 2007 at 1:16 am
[...] I attended my first board meeting with MOUSE and they are a lucky recipient of one of five hundred working laptops used in the OLPC project. Its cool. Looks different from the prototype I saw a few months ago when I met with Negroponte. I would love to spend more time hacking it up, but I don’t want to risk damaging MOUSE’s. Ethan just pointed out a OLPC security page and a discussion about its Threats and Mitigation’s. Lets see how much time MOUSE lets me spend with the device. [...]