[OLPC Security] Grey Markets: differentiation of legitimately purchased laptops
Marcus Leech
mleech at nortel.com
Tue Oct 16 07:26:24 EDT 2007
travis anderson-bond wrote:
>
> Regarding other posts: Sadly, it's not just an issue of brigands and
> corrupt village chieftans stealing the laptops: what about the
> **child** selling the laptop, to earn that month's food money...?
>
>
Sadly, in some deployment situations, that's overwhelmingly likely in my
opinion. If the choice has to be made
between near starvation, and having a glitzy educational tool, it's
very likely that satisfying the immediate, basic
need will come first.
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