Ivan Krstić is a Croatian computer security

Computer security

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 expert, currently working on core security at Apple Inc. Krstić was previously the director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child. He is a co-author of The Official Ubuntu

Ubuntu (operating system)

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 Book (ISBN 978-0-13-243594-9).

Biography

Born in Croatia

Croatia

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, Krstić received a scholarship to attend the Cranbrook Kingswood school in Michigan when he was 15. In 2004, he enrolled at Harvard College

Harvard College

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 but took a year's leave to work on secure electronic healthcare at Croatia's largest children's hospital. After returning to Harvard in 2005, he took another leave when offered a position with One Laptop per Child. While there, he designed the Bitfrost

Bitfrost

Bitfrost is the security design specification for the OLPC XO, a low cost laptop intended for children in developing countries and developed by the One Laptop Per Child project. Bitfrost's main architect is Ivan Krstić...

 security architecture and personally oversaw the project's first two in-country deployments, in Uruguay

Uruguay

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 and Peru

Peru

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. He left the project in early 2008 and later joined Apple in May 2009.

Recognition

In 2007, Krstić became a TR35

TR35

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 laureate, selected by the MIT Technology Review

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 as one of the world's top 35 innovators under the age of 35. A year later, eWeek

EWeek

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 magazine declared him one of the top three most influential people in modern computer security, and one of the top 100 in all of IT

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