[OLPC Networking] Firewalling...

[Ivan Krstić]

Xavier Alvarez wrote:
> My idea was more like creating a sub-network of sorts.  Assuming 
> that the teacher also gets a laptop, it could be configured to 
> work as an access-point/gateway/firewall and the kid's simply 
> connect to it.

Michael is right in pointing out that this is trying to solve a social
problem technically. We're going out of our way to make these machines
fully flexible and hackable by their owners, so locks that aim to keep
the /owner/ of the machine from doing what she wants simply don't work.
And they shouldn't.

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