[cap-talk] Bellovin paper that cites Hayek to justify enabling easy delegation

[Stiegler, Marc D]

>     Freedom of delegation is one of the most attractive proper- 
>     ties of email attachments, as files can be shared with anyone 
>     (or any group) with an email address.
>     
> I notice they don't mention that email attachments have no 
> effective controls on further delegation. :-)
> 
> Cheers - Bill

While they do explicitly say elsewhere that you cannot prevent delegation, they demonstrate with statements like this an ambiguous willingness to give the owner the pretention of prevention. They dance up to the important realization, understand there is an important realization within grasp, but are not quite willing to step across the boundary of traditional illusion into the light where reality dwells :-)

--marcs