[OLPC Security] teasing apart the security problem into pieces
Walter Bender
walter at media.mit.edu
Mon Apr 3 15:37:08 EDT 2006
These questions were posted on the Wiki this morning...
1. How are the OS and applications going to be updated?
2. Will the teacher push updates?
3. Will some other authority push updates?
4. How will systems be protected from viruses/worms?
5. Does the OS/apps need a deeper level of protection than local user
data?
6. Do you need one server system per school/village/district to handle
updates?
7. How are updates authenticated?
8. How will rollbacks be handled?
9. Will encryption be allowed/disallowed?
10. Since some authority is furnishing the laptops, is the assumed
privacy level zero?
11. Can Village A spy on Village B via the mesh network?
-walter
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