The Dell Latitude 2100 is a pretty cool laptop and is aimed toward the student market. It has a LED strip at the top of the edge of the lid that lights up whenever the computer is connected to either a wired or wireless network. This gives both parents and teachers the heads up if the kid goes online, pretty genius I think. However, here's a way for the kids to disable that giveaway sign and surf unbeknownst to parents and teachers. It is also easily reconnected. Check out how to do it here
Yeah they mentioned something about that in the article. For everything the make to try to stop you from doing something theres ALWAYS a way around it 

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