Tesla Coils & Corpses, 2014-08-22 — cryptocurrency 2.0 storage, Ethereum

[Daira Hopwood]

On 22/08/14 21:19, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote:
> Caps-as-access can implement the *-property, and confinement in
> general, Caps-as-data can't.

I would just like to emphasize that the *-property is notable only for
historical reasons rather than because it's a property you should ever
want a secure system to have.

The definition of the *-property is tied to a model of security policy
that has huge usability and security problems. Partly these problems are
practical (the policy depends on blocking side channels which is usually
impossible), but IMO primarily --speaking from an anarchist perspective--
because it depends on and reinforces hierarchical power structures among
human users of the system, rather than cooperative structures.

-- 
Daira Hopwood ⚥

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