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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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