[cap-talk] What does the [defense?] security community really fear from capabilities?

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.com
Sat Jul 14 01:43:28 EDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 14:25 -0700, Jed Donnelley wrote:
> One minor point - I think some of the times and dates need to be
> corrected
> in Jonathan's message.  That 'political' battle is 20 years old
> (1987-2007),
> not 30 years old.  I'm not sure how to interpret the date in this
> sentence:
> 
> > In 1974, when this report was funded, KeyKOS was only just getting
> > first funding.
> 
> I can only guess that he means 1984 rather than 1974?

No. Sadly, I meant 1974. 1974 is indeed the year that KeyKOS first saw
funding, and the anti-capability memes were well underway by then.

-- 
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC



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