[olpc-software] Authentication, authorization, personalization/imprinting

Joshua N Pritikin jpritikin at pobox.com
Wed Mar 29 11:17:12 UTC 2006


On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:56:21AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >A lot. Your idea of privacy and theirs may differ but all children have and
> >need a private space. Whether the contents are truely valuable is a 
> >different
> >matter. Its all in the eye of the owner.
> >
> >Children can also be vindictive, evil and spiteful so will do naughty 
> >things
> >to each others box in fits of anger.
> 
> Oh, very true :) OK, scratch that, I guess they're all important.

Yah but that's part of the educational experience!

OLPC can ship without any password protection.  If stuff gets deleted
then kids will suddenly become very interested in learning about how to
protect their files.
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