Star How Do You Secure 100 Million Laptops?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 20:11 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Penguin
Hardware, Embedded Systems If the plan is perfectly executed, Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project will deploy 100 million laptops in the first year. In one fell swoop, the nonprofit organization will create the largest computing monoculture in history. Wary of the security risks associated with a computing monoculture - millions of machines with hardware and software of identical design - OLPC officials are seeking help from the world's best hackers to review the full specifications of the laptop's security model.
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RE[2]: History has already decided
by Botty on Fri 13th Oct 2006 05:36 UTC in reply to "RE: History has already decided"
Botty
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2005-09-11

buried? there's only a few. Its not that big of a deal.

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