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A more interesting Gnosis - A Prototype Operating System for the 1990's
- olalonde 16y agoFor those who might be wondering, this is in reference to the hacker group who recently hacked Gawker.
- kragen 16y agoIt's great to see object-capability security being discussed on here! Mark Miller, Ben Laurie, and Mark Lentczner are working on how to apply this 1980s research in a web context at https://sites.google.com/site/belayresearchproject/ https://sites.google.com/site/belayresearchproject/ under the name "Belay". They're still in early stages...
- loewenskind 16y agoDoesn't SELinux use an object-capability model?
- abecedarius 16y agoNo. The term is defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-capability_model which says '(Note, however, that some uses of the term "capability" are not consistent with the model, such as POSIX "capabilities".)'
- cjtenny 16y agohttp://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/ http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/ is perhaps also of interest, then.