[OLPC Security] teasing apart the security problem into pieces

Simson Garfinkel simsong at acm.org
Mon Apr 3 18:40:26 EDT 2006


How does one get access to the wiki?
On Apr 3, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Walter Bender wrote:

>
> 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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