"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> OLPC's XO laptop comes with anti-theft kill-switch in select countries
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> | OLPC has responded to such concerns by developing an anti-theft
> | daemon that the project claims cannot be disabled, even by a user
> | with root access.
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> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070218-8872.html
It seems rather curious that the same people who seemed so concerned that
WGA could be used to disable machines found to be running pirated copies of
Windows in spite of assurances to the contrary would applaud a much more
Draconian measure with regard to the OLPC. I guess it mostly matters
whether or not you hate Microsoft.
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