[cap-talk] "Ambient capability"

[Karp, Alan H]

David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> 
> At first sight, having permissions vary "by virtue of context" seems
> like an antipattern in any capability system.
>
I took that comment to have something to do with voluntary oblivious compliance.

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