[IAEP] You can't stroll around Rwanda with an armful of stolen XOs without people noticing

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Am 04.10.2011 15:11, schrieb Walter Bender:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Am 04.10.2011 13:53, schrieb Walter Bender:
>>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly.be at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>> http://allafrica.com/stories/201110031753.html
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>>> What is remarkable to me about this story is how exceptional it is:
>>> the naysayers predicted widespread theft and over the past 5 years, we
>>> have seen very little.
>> Well, OLPC itself did spend what seemed like considerable energy and
>> software design decision making on the security and anti-theft side of
>> things. So I don't think it was just the naysayers who were worried...
> I guess I was too terse in my comment. Many people said that no matter
> what we did, theft would be an insurmountable problem. The evidence to
> date suggests that this is not the case. The reasons are probably a
> combination of our efforts to build in anti-theft (as you point out),
> our approach to 1-to-1 computing and our efforts regarding community
> engagement. (Note that the programs where theft is a recurring problem
> -- NYC and Chile come to mind -- tend to use a different model than
> OLPC deployments -- laptop carts, which are an obvious target.)
Yeah, these days I also tend to think that it's this combination of 
measures which results in the low number of issues. Any single measure 
by itself is probably fairly ineffective which I think it quite a good 
lesson to keep in mind for the future... :-)

Cheers,
Christoph

> regards.
>
> -walter
>
>> In any case it's good that this is much less of an issue than many
>> (including yours truly) had originally assumed:-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>
>> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
>> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
>>
>> e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
>>
>>
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> -- 
> Christoph Derndorfer
>
> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
>
> e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu