Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction – Five-year-old hacks fire department’s Twitter account

What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they’ll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.

Evan Ackerman

Full Story: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php

(Many thanks to Kemble Fletcher at OMD http://www.omd.com/ for sharing this.

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Five-year-old hacks fire department’s Twitter account

A five-year-old hacked into a fire department’s Twitter account. The child was the son of the public information officer and was playing a game on his dad’s iphone when he logged onto Twitter and sent tweets accidentally.

Full Video: http://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2013/04/26/2116759/