Can we afford not to give our kids Linux?
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| For any parent, myself included, setting your kids loose on the net is a
| daunting prospect. We have to do it because the net is a fact of life - it's
| in our schools, the workplace, public libraries and in many if not most homes
| of the developed world. Therefore, do we really have any option but to give
| them Linux?
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15272/1023/
Related:
LATU Uruguay Buying 100,000 OLPC XO's Over Classmate PC!!
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| We now have the results from the first open competition for government
| purchases of laptops designed for 1:1 implementation in public schools, the
| Ceibal Uruguay RFP.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/uruguay/uruguay_buying_olpc_xo_intel_classmate.html
Pervy hacker gets ten years
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| Thirty-six year-old Adrian Ringland of Ilkeston in Derbyshire pleaded
| guilty to forcing schoolgirls to send him explicit pictures after
| having infected their computers with a Trojan horse. The man posed
| as a teen in chatrooms and gained the trust of the girls, before
| planting malicious software onto their PCs. He masked the Trojan
| as a picture of himself, but once opened, he had full access to
| their computers and used the Trojan to blackmail the teens into
| sending explicit pictures.
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| [...]
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| Security folks over at Sophos are warning that it's only a matter
| of time before this happens again - "These children will not be the
| last to be abused via the internet using spyware," senior
| technology consultant for Sophos Graham Cluley said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35666
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