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You said earlier: > I think most people don't fully understand the implications of things like this The "things like this" of which you speak were presumably t

You said earlier: > I think most people don't fully understand the implications of things like this The "things like this" of which you speak were presumably to do with the topic at hand, which is a legal text. You didn't provide any reason to suspect that your complaint was generally about OS security. But sure. It would be great if desktop OSes were capability based. It just doesn't seem relevant to the issue at hand.

ryukafalz 5y ago
It's relevant insofar as granting a program that level of access in a capability based OS would be the exception, not the norm. Today's OSes aren't in a position to make such a statement at all as they don't keep such tight control over a program's authority. But in a capability based OS, it would be - so a program that's in a position to monitor all your activity on your computer can be easily called out as such. In other words, the notifications I mentioned that I'd like to see are only really practical in a capability-style system.