[cap-talk] SPAM-LOW: Re: In Defense of Identities - not

[Sandro Magi]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> In many businesses, they *do*. They are called stockroom clerks. At
> AT&T, for example, every box of pens you got from the stock room had to
> be signed for, and if you grabbed too many people would ask why.
>
> Over time this was dropped for items below a certain cost threshold.
>
> So I would say that the asset value is the main thing in deciding what
> to audit.
>   

Right, so as long as resources are fine-grained enough (as computer
resources are in capability systems), auditing, and sysadmins/clerks are
largely unnecessary; they are necessary at high-levels to allocate
coarse-grained resources to departments where they can be further
partitioned into finer grains and delegated appropriately.

Sandro