<div>Posted on the Sugar Labs wiki, <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Request_New_Features#Change_default_Mesh_settings_for_greater_security">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Request_New_Features#Change_default_Mesh_settings_for_greater_security</a>,</div>
<div><br></div>Change default Mesh settings for greater security<br><br>We were very excited to try Sugar on a Stick (Mirabelle). However, I was very surprised to find lots of users with whom I could "make friends," some of whom seemed to have included their real names!<br>
<br>It took some digging in this Wiki to find out that I just had to delete the Mesh entry (i.e., the reference to <a href="http://jabber.sugarlabs.org">jabber.sugarlabs.org</a>) so that only Sugar users on our Wi-Fi would show up.<br>
<br>There may be a genuine security concern here. We simply have no way of knowing who the other users are with whom a child can "make friends." All it would take is for one bad thing to happen for the Sugar project to suffer.<br>
<br>While we love the idea of children from all over the world collaborating on-line, perhaps pragmatic concerns about the security of all children should lead us, at the very least, to have the default setting on the Mesh entry as a blank. Parents and teachers will then be responsible for enabling this feature, if they so wish.