[OLPC Security] Anti-theft and Anti-Sale ideas for Nepal

[Simson L. Garfinkel's Treo 700p]

>Simson,
>I believe the solution would only be as complex as the popular
>technology P2P, which are mostly OSS projects, pritty stable  and have
>wide implimentation already! OLPC just need to add a a little
>automation over the existing code with minor modification. Thats it.
>;)

but why bother? Why not just run the server on the teacher's laptop?