he widespread use of personal computers running vulnerable commodity operating systems (OSes) has put the personal data of millions of users at risk – data that is easily exploited for identity theft or other fraudulent activities [17]. Attacks that harvest sensitive data 3 from users’ computers take advantage of two crucial weaknesses in modern commodity OSes: First, it is notoriously easy to introduce malicious software into a commodity OS through viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and spyware. Second, once running locally, malicious software can easily obtain sensitive information through the use of powerful APIs exposed by the OS, such as keystroke interception and disk I/O. Many security practices, such as the use of secure network protocols and security tokens, become much less effective when the attackers can simply sniff at every key the users type for their passwords, PIN, and credit card numbers, or when the attackers can read any file on the file system. While this is well-known, the superior functionalities and price advantages of modern commodity systems mean they will continue to be in widespread use despite their vulnerabilities.
To address these concerns, we introduce Vault, a virtual-machine-based security system designed to protect sensitive data on commodity systems. Vault uses a virtual machine monitor (VMM) to compartmentalize a physical machine into two virtual machines (VMs). Sensitive data are stored and handled only in the trusted VM, while all other computing activities occur in the untrusted VM. Users are free to configure the untrusted VM with a commodity OS and a software load of their own choosing. On the other hand, the trusted VM runs a minimal OS with a restricted set of functionalities. To give an idea of what the user experience is using Vault, consider an online shopping scenario. First, a user starts an online shopping session with a web merchant, using
their favorite web browser in the untrusted VM. During checkout, instead of entering her credit card number into the browser, she explicitly switches to the trusted VM, and inputs it there, where it is then securely transmitted to the merchant’s server. Afterward,the system automatically switches back to the untrusted VM to continue the checkout process.
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Several studies have found that there is a positive relationship between firm’s ownership status and its performance. Foreign-owned firms are larger, more productive, more skill-intensive and pay higher wages. Less sure is, however, in what direction the causal relationship between foreign ownership and the wages works. That is, foreign-owned firms may be exceptional because foreign firms acquire high wage skill-intensive firms, or because foreign acquisition has a positive effect on firm’s wages and skill-intensity. In addition, the possible effect of foreign acquisition on wages might be different for workers from different skill groups.
This study examines the effect of foreign acquisition on employment and wages in Finland. The aim is, in particular, to examine whether there are significant differences on the effect of foreign acquisition on wages and employment of workers from different skill groups. Moreover, we aim to put significant effort to examine whether the relationship between foreign ownership and wages or employment is simply a correlation or whether foreign acquisition itself has an effect on the wages and on the skill mix of plant’s work force.
