It turns out that children were browsing pornographic sites on donated laptops



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Reuters reports that Nigerian news agency NAN reported that laptops donated by a US aid group to Nigerian schools are being used to crawl pornographic websites.

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Pupils browse porn on donated laptops | Oddly Enough | Reuters

A NAN reporter discovered pornographic images on some of the laptops, and since the computers were not donated for this purpose, the organization is now planning to install filtering software.

Perhaps then, a child will emerge who has the skills to disable the filtering software, and further improvements will be made to circumvent it, and then they will be able to break through those improvements...and in this way, talented hackers will be developed...

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