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Re: One Laptop per Child security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saqib Ali)
Wed Feb 7 21:10:36 2007
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 15:04:40 -0800
From: "Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
To: "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Krsti=E6?=" <krstic@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Metzdowd Crypto" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <45CA24E0.80603@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu>
And here is the wired coverage of the BitFrost platform:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html?tw=wn_culture_1
>From the article:
But it should come as no surprise -- given how thoroughly the project
has rewritten the conventions of what a laptop should be -- that the
OLPC's security isn't built on firewalls and anti-virus software.
Instead, the XO will premiere a security system that takes a radical
approach to computer protection. For starters, it does away with the
ubiquitous security prompts so familiar to users of Windows and
anti-virus software, said Ivan Krstic, a young security guru on break
from Harvard, who's in charge of security for the XO.
"How can you expect a 6-year old to make a sensible decision when
40-year olds can't?" Krstic asked, in a session at the 2007 RSA
Conference. Those boxes simply train users to check "yes," he argued.
Krstic's system, known as the BitFrost platform....Read more at:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html?tw=wn_culture_1
saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net
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