Tata firm catches ‘Reliance spy’ February 15, 2007
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VSNL has caught the PA to MD passing on sensitive corporate information to arch rival Reliance Communications. He sold out for Rs40,000/-
This is an Indian story, not Pakistani, but its here since its interesting.
Bitfrost, the OLPC security system February 15, 2007
Posted by telecompak in Education, OLPC, Security.1 comment so far
Since there is a remote chance of the ‘Gorement’ buying into the OLPC project we present some reading on its security system. The author is Ivan Krstić.
The architecture-level non-technical specification for Bitfrost, the security platform on the One Laptop per Child machines.
A request for comments is here (the Wiki was overloaded and unreachable when I had a look)
Slashdot discussion
Wired article
LWN article
Techdirt has a comment about backdoors.
People, lets remember that this is all Alpha stage stuff. The security design is just a design. The first Laptops have left the factory, but they are just the prototypes. Next (Beta) stage is 2500 pieces going out for field testing. This is a major project and it is not going to happen overnight.
