[cap-talk] Mandatory Access Control (was: What's "Discretionary Security")

[Bill Frantz]

capability at webstart.com (Jed Donnelley) on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 wrote:

>Presumably owning means 
>that the subject (owner) had the ability to access the object even in 
>a MAC system.  Is there any question about this?

Well, I have met people who can no longer read papers they wrote due to
mandatory access controls (as applied in the non-computer world).  Do
they still own their papers?

Cheers - Bill

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