[cap-talk] Horton context presentation

[David Hopwood]

David Chizmadia (JHU) wrote:
> Jed,
>> [...] I'm very partial still at this point to
>> using Law #1 to focus attention on the problem with the
>> dominant user/ACL access control paradigm.  Do you (others)
>> disagree?  If so, can you explain why?
> 
>     I would see Law #1 as a rather good summary of the problems with
> existing models. It then provides an opening for an aside that the
> ocap community is convinced that ocaps provide an opportunity to
> disprove the law.

No, the "law" is simply nonsense. Consider (non-capability-based)
scripting languages such as Javascript, if for the sake of argument
they were properly implemented. Microsoft presumably doesn't mean to
say that if you go to a web page containing Javascript in IE, then
it is just fine for your computer to be "not your computer any more".

In general, I don't think we should spend too much time harping on
about others' mistakes when they are this obvious.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk>