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• OLPC achieves 2km range in 802.11s tests

  A tester for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has tested wireless technology using the 802.11s 'mesh networking' pre-draft in Australia's outback and achieved distances of 2km

• CyberForceField could be the key to desktop security

  Traditional desktop security would improve beyond recognition if applications could be controlled to a point where they cannot access any part of the system that they do not need to, according to Alcy Infinity, co-founder of Timesavers International.

• Is desktop security broken beyond repair?

  At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krsti, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.

• OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

  Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

• AusCERT prepares for biggest ever conference

  Australia's best-known security conference will open for business on Monday and organisers say this year's event should be the biggest ever.

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• Photos: Linux.conf.au 2008

  This year's linux.conf.au conference, held at Melbourne University, was an all out Linux free-for-all. Highlights include images of the new XO Linux laptop and an interview with Linus Torvalds.

• 2007: How was it for security?

  Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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  At the AusCERT 2007 conference in Queensland last week, keynote speaker Ivan Krstic, who is the director of security architecture for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, told attendees that desktop security was fundamentally broken. We asked several security experts who attended the conference if they agreed and how the problem could be fixed.

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