[OLPC Security] A mom's worries

[Gmail Team]

>
>   isolation (Multics, the various *nix {BSD, Linux, etc, etc], VMS, and
> a signficant flotilla of others over
>   the last 40 years) have fewer "downstream consequences" to software
> suffering "unintended consequences".
>   The problem has been that, until fairly recently, user-friendly
> desktop software like Windows has been designed
>   with *very poor* user-to-user isolation, because the original design
> of the operating system was single-user.


The root in the XO doesn't have a password, how can talk about, permissions,
and all that stuff, it the root, the admin of the whole system doesn't has
his own passwd ?. Any malware, can affect the system simply doing 'su´.
With just a pwgen ( $ man pwgen ) for the root, you will forget about
malwares.. but, with out pass, it will be like windows :'(

Kindly Regards
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