One Laptop Per Child Security Spec Released

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.'"

Comments

So everything is in a jail(8)...

[dextromulous]

I don't know if this is a good idea or an awesome idea.

Re:It's just the usual Trusted Computing fallacy

[statusbar]

Maybe the vision of the world 'where only the priesthood are granted programming licenses' is where we are going. Not really a priesthood, but authorized, approved, educated and vetted by the regime-of-the-day, "Programmers".

People as consumers and workers, not as citizens or producers.

Especially those third world coloured kids who need to be taught how to 'plug in to the net' and 'consume information' - but giving them the freedom to create or extend technology is too scary for 'us'.

--jeffk++