At 9:47 PM -0400 on 4/7/99, Nelson Minar wrote:
> I'm not trying to be difficult; this is a real problem. And no one has
> a good solution for consumer use. I think a Pilot is likely to be
> better than my desktop PC.
This is kind of what I'm getting at, a Palm has a better chance of being a
trusted device, or at least the form factor is, than a Mac, or even a
Windows PC ;-).
BTW, at the USENIX workshop on Embedded Systems last week, there was a guy
from Lucent talking about an operating system they're mucking around with
called Pebble (the paper was by John Bruno, Jose Brustoloni, Eran Gabbler,
Avi Silberschatz, and Christopher Small; Gabbler presented), which ran
untrusted applications in their own segregated bit of machine, all the way
down to the processor.
Not unlike Inferno, I've heard, but better...
Cheers,
RAH
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