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Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction

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Renegade:
Just for clarification- hack is a bit sensationalist (they enabled the disabled camera).  But still impressive.
-wraith808 (November 02, 2012, 07:45 AM)
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And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android."
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It sounds like the camera had been disabled at the OS level, and that they'd rooted it and changed the config somehow. The details are kind of sketchy.

But like you said, still impressive.

superboyac:
If this information is true, and there isn't too much spin inserted (seems to be short on details), then this is both fascinating and amazing. 

40hz:
If true, it says one thing to me: the magic is still there. :Thmbsup:

superboyac:
If true, it says one thing to me: the magic is still there. :Thmbsup:
-40hz (November 02, 2012, 11:36 AM)
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Damn straight!  I see it all the time, that's why I get so angry when I think about the educational institutions.  This is exactly why i think my portable university idea was a good one.  oh shit...i just got another idea...

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