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I'm glad to see Sundar will have the ear of the king, ChromeOS hardware may be the single most promising near term development in computer security for the comm
by trotsky 16y ago
I'm glad to see Sundar will have the ear of the king, ChromeOS hardware may be the single most promising near term development in computer security for the common man. I expect to be buying several for my family once they become commercially available.
- gbrindisi 16y agoWhat do you mean with "most promising near term development in computer security for the common man"? Can you expand on that?
- MatthewPhillips 16y agoChrome has a very robust security model that includes, among other things, auto-updating and a verified boot (version numbers cannot go backwards). For example, if a device is detected as being hacked, an update will be initialized and then a reboot. And if a device is stolen, it's basically useless since ALL user data stored on the device is encrypted (and can be remote-wiped anyways). Here's everything: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/security-overview http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/s...
- trotsky 16y agoEverything that Matthew said plus the ability to easily reload from a cryptographically good backup copy of the OS if it detects anything has gone awry without disturbing your "applications". I'd highly suggest following the link he gave, it is a very interesting revue of many modern and practical security approaches.
- divtxt 16y agoSeconded. ChromeOS will join iPad as a computer "my mom can use". ChromeOS's main disadvantage is that it is not available. This should be fixed this year. iPad's main disadvantage is that it requires a traditional desktop to manage. You can bet Apple is looking to fix this.
- MatthewPhillips 16y agoAgreed, he's an underrated genius. You can see it when he talks, he deserved every penny of that $50m bonus he got. I'll be buying many as well.