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

But what about DCOM in my ActiveX?

[filesiteguy]

If my OLPC applications are completely isolated, how am I going to implement this new idea I have for cross-application communication based on shared pipes among apps.

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!

Re:But what about DCOM in my ActiveX?

[Original Replica]

Please call it: Dynamic Methods Communication Application

Yes, better security...

[TinBromide]

So, I bet that my cell phone has better security than a $5000 vista laptop, but you can do stuff on that laptop that you can't on my phone. (not sure what, but i'm sure there's something porn related)

At the moment

[Peter Bonte]

At the moment every other OS has better security than Windows, what's new?

Re:Drastic?

[AuMatar]

There already is, minus the cover. Its marked "Power". You can add the cover via a case mod.