Apple hires former OLPC security architect

Apple hires former OLPC security architect Ivan Krstic is upgrading from acting on $100 laptops. Beginning on, the first security architect for the One Laptop Per Child project is earning a living for Apple.

He wrote towards the turn to Apple on his personal nexus 4 case bumper blog. Krstic was the architect inside the Bitfrost security specification applied by OLPC for passwords, challenging encryption, machine authentication, security updates, and prevention of case for nexus 4 data loss. He'll be working with core operating system the reassurance of Cupertino.

Though OLPC isn't a large platform that hackers are known for targeting, it's likely the way in which Krstic ponders security that attracted Apple's interest. As ZDNet notes:

Instead of blocking specific viruses, the unit (Bitfrost) sequesters every program on your computer with a separate virtual os in this handset, preventing any program from damaging every day, stealing files, Nexus 4 Hard Case or spying located on the user. Viruses are still isolated and impotent, could not execute their code.

According to Krstic, that "defeats full purpose" of having a virus.