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

[Jim Gettys]

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 05:10 -0600, Dean Johnson wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> > 
> 
> In which case the laptop can be used to bludgeon the perp.

So long as the machine is closed up, we hope it will be sturdy enough to
be used as a bludgeon ;-).  The screen is the one fragile part of the
machine.
                               - Jim

-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child