[pchelpers] News:Computer security has 'massively failed'

Patrick Gray
May 22, 2007

The computing industry relies on "utterly obsolete concepts and
assumptions" and has "massively failed when it comes to desktop
security".

So says Ivan Krstic, security architect for One Laptop Per Child, a
project that aims to design, manufacture and distribute cheap laptop
computers to children in developing countries.

"Right now desktop security is completely broken; it doesn't work," Mr
Krstic says.

Mr Krstic criticised software vendors' efforts to secure their products
at the opening session of the annual AusCERT computer security
conference on the Gold Coast yesterday, where he was keynote speaker.

The 21-year-old has taken leave from his undergraduate studies at
Harvard to head security for One Laptop Per Child, a program founded by
Nicholas Negroponte of the renowned Media Lab at MIT in Boston.

Mr Krstic says the computing industry relies on utterly obsolete
concepts and assumptions that first surfaced in the early 1970s.

More here:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/security/computer-security-has-massively-failed/2007/05/21/1179601329670.html
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