One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released 253
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from the no-school-like-the-old-school dept.
from the no-school-like-the-old-school dept.
juwiley writes "The One Laptop Per Child project has released information about its advanced security platform called Bitfrost. Could children with a $100 laptop end up with a better security infrastructure than executives using $5000 laptops powered by Vista? 'What's deeply troubling — almost unbelievable — about [Unix style permissions] is that they've remained virtually the only real control mechanism that a user has over her personal documents today...In 1971, this might have been acceptable...We have set out to create a system that is both drastically more secure and provides drastically more usable security than any mainstream system currently on the market.'"
But what about DCOM in my ActiveX? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm thinking it would work well to implement such a feature so that the writing widget can talk to the chat widget and the spreadsheet widget. I was planning on calling it, Dynamic Communication Over Methods, or DCOM for short.
Now I'm bummed!
Yes, better security... (Score:5, Funny)
At the moment (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Drastic? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:But what about DCOM in my ActiveX? (Score:3, Funny)