We've been having a long-ish thread over on security regarding a
possibility mitigation strategy for black/grey-market resale of
educational laptops while selling laptops in G1G1 or similar
approaches. The proposed mechanism is as follows:
* For the G1G1 (or other non-educational/government purchased) runs,
alter the configuration file which controls the colours to be
applied to the laptop lids, so that the X-O symbol on the lid of
all personally-purchased laptops will be a single distinctive
colour (suggest white, to increase difficulty in painting over the
symbol, but any distinctive colour would be fine)
the thread on the security list is long and goes into a lot of details,
but we don't yet have feedback from those on the physical manufacturing
side as to whether we can make this change at all, and whether it would
be disruptive to the runs.
With thanks,
Mike
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Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
http://www.vrplumber.com
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