[OLPC Security] Periodic identity updates

[Simson Garfinkel]

Matt,

You don't have to be a paid employee or consultant of OLPC to  
contribute to the project.

Unfortunately,  most of the  discussion on this list has not, in  
fact, contributed to the project. Although there have been a lot of  
interesting ideas, many of them have not been useful or relevant to  
what the project is trying to do with security.



On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Matt Anderson wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:38:39AM -0500, Simson Garfinkel wrote:
>> Perhaps the problem is that I'm really not sure what your role is in
>> OLPC.  My role is that of a hired consultant who is helping Ivan work
>> on the security specification. My goal is to make sure that the
>> threats that we have identified are reasonable, and that we have
>> reasonable responses to these threats.
>>
>> What is your role in this project and what is your goal? Are you
>> pursuing an ideological agenda for some theoretical role of computers
>> in our society, or are you actually working to improve this
>> particular security model for this particular project?
>
> I must be confused.  I thought this was a community discussion list  
> where
> OLPC was requesting feedback.  I didn't see your name on
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Our_team but I did notice at the bottom  
> of that
> page " the most basic being to contribute your ideas and feedback."
>
> Is there some other list for those without offical ties to the OLPC
> project to discuss the security framework?  Is the spec finalized and
> this list is just for show?
>
> -matt
>