Luke Faraone

After reading several articles about the alleged spying that was enabled by a Pennsylvania school district via its one-to-one MacBook, and seeing discussion on a variety of mailing lists, I’ve decided to implement my own zero-cost, no-hassle solution to the problem for the OLPC XO-1’s camera.
This should be able to be adopted in deployments everywhere, [...]

I’ve been getting increasing numbers of requests from donors in the first OLPC Give 1 Get 1, many of whom are just getting around to opening their XOs, to have their laptops repaired. As is now widely known, due to a manufacturing glitch the first few batches of OLPC XO-1s that were shipped to consumers [...]