[Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! [Now with blog post] (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Feb 25 04:10:55 CET 2009

Lie Ryan wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:22:19 +0000, tav wrote:

Steve, this isn't death by a 1,000 cuts. What's being put forward here is not a specific implementation -- but rather a specific model of security (the object capability model) -- which has been proven to be foolproof. Proven? Isn't it impossible to prove something like this? "Nobody ever see an alien" is not a proof for "There is no alien". "Nobody have thought of a way to break the model" is not a proof for "The model is invincible"... Quite.

regards Steve

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