In case you didn’t see or hear about the story, MIT has developed an inexpensive, crank-driven, laptop for distribution to children in developing nations. Read more at the MIT site.
One detail I was curious about, what OS will it use? Turns out that it is a variant of Redhat Linux. I found this out through an African tech news story.
Very cool!
Mark Russinovich broke the story after he found a rootkit on his computer. Security Guru Steve Gibson has discussed it in detail on his Security Now podcast. Now the news has hit the mainstream with a Wired News article.
In case you haven’t heard about it yet, go read and listen! It’s estimated at having infected 500,000 computers already.
It’s a sad day for Sony.
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