[IAEP] Sugar on a Stick - How might a Sugar USB experience work in practice?

[David Farning]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com>wrote:

> Hi Jonas and Alan,
>
> I agree with your thoughts here.  Certainly the distribution we use should
> not make it easy to see the host computer's hard-drive.
>

It is pretty straight forward to modify the CD/USB login menu to remove the
install options and leave only the run live option.


>
> A harder problem is someone booting up with a different boot USB/CD.  Most
> of the school computers I have met already allow boot by CD so that risk is
> already there.
>

Yes, this is not a Sugar specific issue.  If the computer already allows
boot by CD, the hacking tool of choice for second graders everywhere will
not be Sugar.


>   However, it would be good to think about how we can minimize the risk to
> the network.
>

This is going to be an issue.  When we get to the issue of school servers we
can leverage off the work OLPC has been doing.

thanks
david
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