Re: Anti-theft vs RTC (Was Re: NetworkManager time sync)

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Hal Murray wrote: > It's probably possible to make the anti-theft stuff significantly more robust > in this area.  I think it would be a lot of work. Yes. Much more work than mere conversation. Are you planning to hack on this? Moving a good chunk of olpc-update-q

Anti-theft vs RTC (Was Re: NetworkManager time sync)

2010-07-06 Thread Hal Murray
csc...@laptop.org said: >> While we have your attention on this topic... >> Do you not think that this is a security issue? In that a thief could >> put a laptop on a network with rigged DNS and have control over the >> time/date on the laptop? > A sane security system would let the user contro