To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry

Re:To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry by trotsky on Friday April 08, 2011 @11:49AM (#2424291)

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.

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Re:To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry by MatthewPhillips on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:13PM (#2424703)

Agreed, 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.

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Re:To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry by divtxt on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:06PM (#2424669)

Seconded. 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.

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Re:To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry by gbrindisi on Friday April 08, 2011 @12:25PM (#2424485)

What do you mean with "most promising near term development in computer security for the common man"? Can you expand on that?

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Re:To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry by MatthewPhillips on Friday April 08, 2011 @01:11PM (#2424696)

Chrome 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/s...

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Re:To Figure Out Google’s Priorities, Just Look At Team Larry by trotsky on Friday April 08, 2011 @02:08PM (#2424973)

Everything 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.

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