On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SJ wrote: > > I continue to be uncomfortable that we are sending out restricted / > > locked-down machines without a clear need. The arguments made so far for > > this are > > > > 1. "Getting G1G1 people to test security steps" > > 2. "Protecting G1G1 donors from installing anything but signed builds" > > 3. "Showing a pretty boot screen" > > > > 3. represents a bug that should be fixed. Tying pretty boot to > > machine-lockdown is arbitrary. > > agreed. as a G1G1 owner i wanted to see the boot messages quite > a long time before i needed or wanted a dev key.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cheat_codes the 'check' key is what you are looking for. > > 1. is an interesting argument. As with 2, it would still > > hold if recipients were actively encouraged to get developers > > keys if they have any interest in having full control of their > > machines (indeed you could say that they we would have a much > > better test of the dev-key acquisition process, which > > currently works more clearly in large batches for countries > > than for individuals). > > i would have thought G1G1 proved that dev-key acquisition works > just fine. That's my hope. Shipping G1G1 with security enabled forced us to properly prioritize bugs with dev key request/fulfillment, and to build tools to make requesting a dev key easy. That was a success, from my perspective. I'd like to be able to offer the same antitheft protection we will be trying to offer Uruguay to G1G1 users as well, on a voluntary basis, and roughly the same reasoning. If something goes wrong or it doesn't work like it should, G1G1 users are communicative and English-literate canaries in the coal mine. And diagnosing and fixing the problem is much easier for G1G1 than it is for some small village in Uruguay a week's walk from anything. But again, my perspective is warped by having to write this code and be confident in its correctness. I want as much help as I can get. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel