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Don't underestimate kids. https://www.fastcompany.com/2681011/ethiopian-kids-hacked-their-donated-tablets-in-just-five-months https://www.fastcompany.com/26810
by 29athrowaway 4y ago
Don't underestimate kids.
https://www.fastcompany.com/2681011/ethiopian-kids-hacked-their-donated-tablets-in-just-five-months https://www.fastcompany.com/2681011/ethiopian-kids-hacked-th...
“We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut.
No instruction, no human being.
I thought, the kids will play with the boxes!
Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box,
but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off
switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were
using 47 apps per child per day.
Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs
[in English] in the village. 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.”
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI don't underestimate kids, but I suspect healthy skepticism towards 1st graders 'hacking Android' is warranted. What exactly did they do?
- 29athrowaway 4y agoThe OLTP devices distributed to them had the camera disabled. They figured out the way to correct the problem.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThat is much too vague to be useful.
- maphew 4y agoI surmise those kids had near complete freedom to do whatever they wanted with those tablets. No parental helicoptering.