[OLPC Security] A mom's worries

[Seth Woodworth]

> > Viruses will be contained, and thus quite harmless.
>
> Wow, looks like the antivirus industry is out of business.
>
> For the past year, OLPC developers have been brushing aside issues
> surrounding viruses, spyware and user/parent awareness of security by
> suggesting that the XO model and code are invulnerable. This is
> completely unrealistic.


Yes, because there is such a thriving anti-virus industry for linux systems.

Maybe someone should explain the OLPC system a little better.  The idea is
that malicious software (or any software for that matter) isn't allowed to
do anything.  The worst that it could do is take up resources until it was
shut down.

This is basically what anti-virus software does.  It finds programs that it
thinks are malicious, and contains them from accessing things that they
shouldn't.  It sounds like you are suggesting someone writes a program to do
this again.
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