[cap-talk] Selling capabilities programming

[Karp, Alan H]

James A. Donald wrote:
> 
> Present day well behaved programs in present day
> operating systems restrict their file accesses to files
> that the user expects them to: their own directories,
> and the files that the user directs.  They act as if
> they never acquire any durable capability to access any
> file from the user or human system administrator.

Unless a macro script embedded in the file directs them to do otherwise.

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