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In England People Arrested For WiFi Theft
We’ve been following stories about people being arrested for “stealing WiFi” for some time now, and we’re still unsure of exactly what the crime is. If a person is accessing an open WiFi network without physically trespassing, should that be illegal, or should it be the network owner’s responsibility to secure their network?
Furthermore, how are people supposed to know what networks are okay for them to access, given the way many public-access networks use cryptic SSIDs? Anyhow, despite these questions, people continue to get arrested for using other people’s WiFi networks, though it’s been a while since we’ve seen it happen in the US.
A couple of people have been busted in Singapore, where there’s a specific law that could get you three years in the pokey for unauthorized access of a WiFi network. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Now every pupil in Uruguay Will Have Laptop
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Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school.
President Tabaré Vázquez presented the final XO model laptops to pupils at a school in Montevideo on 13 October.
Over the last two years 362,000 pupils and 18,000 teachers have been involved in the scheme.
The “Plan Ceibal” (Education Connect) project has allowed many families access to the world of computers and the internet for the first time.
Uruguay is part of the One Laptop Per Child scheme, an organisation set up by internet pioneer Nicholas Negroponte. His original vision was to provide laptops at $100 (£61) but they proved more expensive.
The Uruguay programme has cost the state $260 (£159) per child, including maintenance costs, equipment repairs, training for the teachers and internet connection. [Read the rest of this entry...]