From Desktops to Donuts: Object-Caps Across Scales

Google TechTalks July 26, 2006 Marc Stiegler Visiting Scholar Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Mr. Stiegler is the developer of CapDesk, a graphical desktop system invulnerable to traditional computer viruses that first explored the secure cooperation concepts now being used by the Polaris secure desktop system for Windows XP. ABSTRACT In this last presentation in our series on the Authorization Based Access Control (ABAC) school of thought, we start with an object-capability desktop, CapDesk. CapDesk yields better security, greater functionality, and superior ease of use, all at the same time (and was the original development platform for the ideas that inspired Polaris, demonstrated earlier in...