The $100 One Laptop Per Child: Open Invitation to Hackers to Smash Security
Sometimes blessings may turn into curses. The $100 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is another example, which offers a open invitation to hackers to smash the security on the future computers.
Under the OLPC project, low-priced Linux-based computers featuring a 500 MHz AMD processor along with 128 MB of system memory and 512 MB of Flash storage memory would be dispensed to third world or poor countries, which can pose a grave security threat.
Ivan Kristić, OLPC representative, at the Toorcon computer security convention revealed,
The OLPC will create the largest monoculture in history and it will present some "very scary" security problems. One huge security risk is that new computers will transparently transmit application code from one computer to another. The cheap laptops are meant to operate in a mesh wireless network and if one computer does not have an application, then it can acquire it wirelessly from another computer.
It will be better to pull the socks as early as possible, because if the project will be among the masses, it would resemble a vain effort to control wild jungle fire.
Via: tgdaily
