[OLPC Security] teasing apart the security problem into pieces
Tim Flavin
tim.flavin at gmail.com
Sun Apr 9 16:28:40 EDT 2006
Simson Garfinkel said:
> Presumably another funky set of keys will have my laptop copy the
> operating system from your laptop (but not the user code)?
If there is enough boot rom yes. Otherwise the OS is copied from a
(flash) disk on the USB port. The boot rom may be small to save money
and things like TCP etc may take up too much space.
Glad to see the necessary tools are available.
Tim
More information about the Security
mailing list