[cap-talk] Authority vs. Information Flow

[Toby Murray]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 02:38 -0800, David Wagner wrote:
> Toby Murray writes:
> >I don't see how it makes sense to say "trusted (i.e. code about which we
> >know how it will behave) code has no authority". I don't understand at
> >all.
> 
> A tiny nitpick: Just because we know how an object O will behave does not
> necessarily mean that we're prepared to consider O trusted or trustworthy.

That depends on your definitions of "trusted" and "trustworthy". For
example, if we know how O will behave, we certainly trust O to be have
as we know it will, right? We may not trust it to behave in a way that
aligns with our interests, however.