This is a interesting read: 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 _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
