[cap-talk] Capabilities and Freedom vs. Safety

[Toby Murray]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 13:53 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: 
> > That last sentence doesn't parse. Could you elaborate on that? Do you
> > mean that they cannot prevent a particular subject from acquiring a
> > particular permission? 
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > That can't be it, because they can, and do,
> > achieve this. (I can't acquire the permission to install RPM packages on
> > my work machine since I don't have the root password, for example.)
> 
> Regrettably, this is untrue. You simply don't know how.

Now you're going to have to elaborate on that.