[cap-talk] Some good advice for disruptive technologies

[Raoul Duke]

it says "gone" for me.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Karp, Alan H <alan.karp at hp.com> wrote:
> David Barbour wrote:
>>
>> But none of these principles are well served if we just reinvent the
>> traditional desktop OS atop a capabilities system. We should also
>> rethink the user experience, develop user interfaces that directly
>> reflect capabilities held and keep users aware of which they are
>> sharing. This doesn't need to be obtrusive, but such principles
>> will certainly affect how applications are expressed and which
>> widgets would exist by default.
>>
> Marc Stiegler wrote ShareShell for exactly this purpose.  The webkey
>
> https://sha-256-ljg53ciihdfqfv2a.yurl.net:9445/-/farshell/gtn7gh/ctf2oa/uyien7/cx3x3o/#s=kkqvrisymsqrgg
>
> gives you the authority to run a specific set of commands on his server, some of which require root privilege.  There's even a $20 bounty for discovering the contents of the file root-password.txt.  Even though it's capabilities all the way down, they don't show in the UI.
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