[OLPC-devel] Secure BIOS on the OLPC

[Ivan Krstić]

Tim Flavin wrote:
> It will not protect against people
> distributing an old BIOS with
> a known exploit

No. I can defend against this trivially with a counter, but I don't
think it's a concern. What would a useful BIOS exploit even be?

> and will prevent students from experimenting with the
> BIOS, but probably better than the current situation.

No; I mentioned in the e-mail that the design accommodates this use
case, but it would require the kids that are interested in hacking their
BIOS to contact us first. I think this is fully acceptable.

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