One Boner Per Child

Brian Ambrozy 20 Jul, 2007 at 9:22pm ET Article published in Tech

Reuters is reporting that, shockingly, the children of Nigeria have put their inexpensive and high tech laptops to nefarious uses. Apparently it has been discovered that pornographic websites have been visited by users of the laptops. A representative of the OLPC initiative has stated that filters will now be installed on all the laptops.

First clean water, then malaria vaccinations, and now Jenna Jameson! What will they think of next?

Comments

20 Jul 2007 ~ 9:24pm Thrax SURPRI-- wait, no.
20 Jul 2007 ~ 9:29pm primesuspect I especially like the picture. Look how intently these kids are staring at the screen!

LET'S SEE BOTH HANDS, KIDS!
20 Jul 2007 ~ 10:31pm airbornflght They need to limit how many emails those things can send per day... let the little bastards look at porn if it keeps them from trying to offer me uncle richie's family fortune to me as long as I send a thousand to them first.
21 Jul 2007 ~ 1:42pm primesuspect I really doubt that the OLPC laptops are what the Nigerian scam artists are using....
21 Jul 2007 ~ 2:02pm Thrax You never know. Millions of inexpensive PCs that can easily be harnessed into a massive botnet? Easy pickins.
21 Jul 2007 ~ 2:33pm primesuspect I doubt they could easily be harvested into a botnet seeing as they run proprietary OSes.
22 Jul 2007 ~ 9:25am the_technocrat don't need a high-end laptop to control a botnet...
22 Jul 2007 ~ 11:11am Thelemech The wonderful proliferation of Technology.

I wonder if my band can get a gig at The Porn Aid Benefit Concert
23 Jul 2007 ~ 12:01am RWB This thread, I must say, has one of the creepiest titles this forum has ever posted.

Good Job!
23 Jul 2007 ~ 1:41pm GrayFox

Thrax wrote:

You never know. Millions of inexpensive PCs that can easily be harnessed into a massive botnet? Easy pickins.

They run crippled linux. The user can't even ever become root.

They would have to drop down to the command line and run a script to install the virus (Most linux virus's arn't just a simple ./whatever) and then the virus would just be stuck in userland.
24 Jul 2007 ~ 3:55pm mtrox This would only be news if they hadn't surfed porn with the laptops.
21 Feb 2009 ~ 10:54pm shwaip hand check.
21 Feb 2009 ~ 11:01pm Snarkasm That's what, a... 19-month revival? Impressive.
21 Feb 2009 ~ 11:21pm shwaip ^ cleverly avoids the hand-check.
21 Feb 2009 ~ 11:25pm Linc o/
22 Feb 2009 ~ 4:53pm Leonardo

Snarkasm wrote:

That's what, a... 19-month revival? Impressive.

It wasn't me this time!