[cap-talk] More Heresey: ACLs not inherently bad

[Raoul Duke]

> Encryption can be made hard to use, but the Windows EFS is transparent to the user, and other approaches are equally easy to use.

reading the docs on how to get multiple users looking at the same file
on EFS on XP, therein lies the rub - there are as many different
definitions of "easy" as there are (use cases)*(persons involved in
said use cases).

that will always be true, so it isn't like the point is that we can
make the encrypted situation as usable as the unencrypted situation or
else just completely give up. the point is that we need to be really
careful about figuring out just how big the delta can be before people
say "eh, screw it". which is perhaps another topic entirely, although
i think it is one that ideally would be answered before we could make
claims about what cap-style alternatives will actually work in the
real world.

hopefully cap desk is a great existence proof and reason for optimism.

sincerely,
the wet rag, apologies.