According to a report by The Sydney Morning Herald, the One Laptop Per Child project's $100 PC for the third world may turn out to be as revolutionary for its security measures as for its low-cost economics.
The paper reckons that programmers have been "taking advantage of the start-from-scratch nature of the project to design security protocols that they hope will greatly surpass those found in mass-market computers today".
Of course, this is unlikely to be of the slightest help to the majority of the world's current PC users running Windows but it does, perhaps, show that a high level of security is possible if it's thought about at the early stages of product development!
Thoughts on security and on the OLPC project? Well, check out the Herald article and our last update on the $100 laptop then share them with us in this thread in the HEXUS.lifestyle forum.
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