[OLPC Security] Some anti-theft questions

[Alexander Todorov]

Ivan Krstić wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 8:18 AM, Alexander Todorov wrote:
>> Oh, did I? I didn't know that once activated the laptop will try to get
>> the new lease from the school server. I was thinking that it will try to
>> connect to a central government managed server.
> 
> This is indeed correct; in fact, all activated laptops will -- 
> tentatively as of update.2 -- be connecting to our central theft 
> deterrence server (TDS) until governments set up their own TDS 
> infrastructure.
> 
> However, we will be deploying monitoring to the school servers as well, 
> such that information can be provided to governments to the effect of 
> "these 56 laptops haven't been seen at their home school in the last 
> month, but are active and connecting from other places."
> 

Both of the above seem enough for now. Also it would be nice if we can 
access these stats (at least numbers) publicly on-line. Good for 
comparisons and estimating the number of stolen machines when planning 
the purchase volume (e.g. X + 5%).

Thanks,
Alexander.