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

[Simson L. Garfinkel's Treo 700p]

Why do you think these laptops have a resale value of $80?
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...... Original Message .......
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:40:59 +0100 "Carl-Daniel Hailfinger" 
<c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>Ivan Krsti
 wrote:
>> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>> If the XBox can be hacked, do you really think we have
>>> the resources to prevent people from tampering with the hardware? 
>> 
>> Of course not. But if it takes an hour of hardware tampering for an
>> informed attacker to disable the protections, I consider P_THEFT having
>> accomplished exactly what it was designed to.
>
>Yes, the spec states that P_THEFT is designed as deterrent, but it
>seems some people misunderstood it as unsurmountable protection.
>The one hour I estimated for disassembling and reflashing is probably
>somewhat off the mark, the time to disassemble+reassemble is unknown
>to me, but the time for reflashing could be as low as 5 minutes.
>
>Regards,
>Carl-Daniel
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>http://www.hailfinger.org/
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