Hi Paul, Paul J. Morris wrote: > If a worm can propagate to every OLPC laptop it must > have network access in some form, this means it could use the entire set > of OLPC laptops to perform a distributed denial of service attack on a > target.
Sort of. The worm would still be subject to connection rate and bandwidth throttling, so the laptops are not _that_ useful as a DDoS launchpad. But it's all a big hypothetical scenario, because finding invariants to infect across all OLPC systems is likely to prove extremely difficult; only applications that the user sometimes runs generally listen on a port and act as a server. There aren't going to be unprotected, constantly-running servers to exploit. -- Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | GPG: 0x147C722D --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
