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 ====Security====
-(Mention the "walled garden".)
+Security is detailed elsewhere in this wiki (See [[Bitfrost]]). Our goal is to protect against five categories of "bad things" software can do:
+# damaging the laptop;
+# compromising privacy;
+# damaging the children's data;
+# do bad things to other people; and
+# impersonate the child.
+It is important to include anti-theft measures and common mechanisms for objectionable-content filtering.
+From the perspective of the user interface, it is important that these goals be achieved without the use of menus, pop-up boxes, passwords, etc., as these approaches are meaningless to most people.
 ====Adaptability====