[OLPC-devel] OLPC "bootloader"

[Ivan Krstic]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> Exactly: the point I was making was just that man-in-the-middle attacks
> are not theoretical, but can and have occurred.  There may be simple
> solutions for this case.

If we're handling the reinstall with LinuxBIOS (i.e. not an opaque or
extremely-constrained system that we can't program), MITM just isn't a
deeply worrisome attack vector.

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