I’d certainly hope not. A capability based security system in an OS is only secure if it doesn’t have bugs. Just like most security-critical software. However,

I’d certainly hope not. A capability based security system in an OS is only secure if it doesn’t have bugs. Just like most security-critical software. However, I’m not sure that Linux is capable of masquerading as a general purpose capability based operating system. I think it’s missing a bunch of APIs.