[cap-talk] What are caps good for? "Encapsulation"? POLAvs.confinement

[Ben Laurie]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> Which claim do you have in mind?
> 
> Oh. That's just encapsulation. Because a process controls its
> interfaces, a third party cannot just reach in and read its data. This
> means that a process controls what it discloses.

Modulo bugs, of course.

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