"Chilling Effects" paper at USENIX

[Jaya Kumar]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:24:34PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>  > A paper called "Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO
>  > Security Model" will be presented next Monday at USENIX UPSEC'08 [1].  The
>  > author has kindly posted the paper at [2], which I discovered after Google
>  > took me to her weblog [3].
>
>  This paper is depressing. Why didn't the authors step up and
>  contribute instead of criticizing from the citadel?
>
>  This paper is dead on arrival.
>

I think your reaction is dismissive rather than addressing the
author's criticism.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, I'm no expert, but it looks to me like the
paper makes specific technical criticisms and seems quite detailed. I
think it would be more positive and productive to respond to the
technical statements made in the paper rather than to be dismissive
and ignore what looks to some of us like valuable feedback.

Regards,
jaya