Security port for a 100 USD 'guarded' laptop

Although at a low price, laptops for children have a mode of buying, reselling, being stolen, downloading unauthorized programs or accessing bad websites. If this happens, the device will be remotely controlled to turn it off completely.

Ivan Krstic, the director of computer security for this project, said that due to the specific characteristics of the users, the device models must have a better security class than regular PCs.

" Security is a difficult issue ," said Jason Scott, founder of Textfiles.com newsletter. " The project provides laptops for children that require multiple classes of courses to limit the intention of stealing from this immature generation ."

Poor countries, which receive the One Child Per Child project, are also afraid of them going online to get into an unhealthy site. " Network culture is often influenced by Western lifestyles and developing countries are not ready to receive them, especially children, " said Sean Coyne, security expert at Booz Allen Hamilton. " We are aware that laptops and children are at risk of being used for bad purposes ."

The user can download any authorized program to the computer. The system will not accept applications with virus-like execution. In addition, the device has the function to prevent web software from monitoring the integrated camera on the motherboard. Application processing technology will allow laptops to run each program on a semi-virtual environment to avoid software conflicts.

This type of learning machine can help you identify the file system and see the code. However, security experts say this is the biggest weakness. " If you change the code, people can do everything with this laptop and the security effort will be meaningless ," Coyne said.