One Laptop per Child security

[Saqib Ali]

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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