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.'"

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One Treacherous computer per Child

[Marcion]

Don't get me wrong I think the project is the best thing since Tim Berners Lee invented the WWW, however:

"The sole purpose of these keys will be to verify the integrity of bundled software and content."

Sounds a bit like DRM? What if the child gets bored and decides to install another Linux distribution?

"If the lease expires, the XO's internet connectivity is turned off, and shortly thereafter the whole computer becomes a brick."

Er nice...