Object Capabilities for Security - YouTube

This video at YouTube looks very interesting... I hope to be able to watch the whole thing later today.

As an educational resource it's pretty good so far.

Update 5/22/2008 - It was VERY useful, and I learned some new terms, like Ambient Authority, and got some new examples to use.

LBNL: Delegating responsibility in digital systems

Here's an interested article about Object Capability Systems, which they call ocaps from LBNL. They argue that the need to have a user to blame is one of the reasons that drove the adoption of the ACL security model. They then go on to introduce Horton, a system to help merge the best features of ACL and Capabilities models.

I don't understand the rest of it, for now, it's way over my head. I now understand a bit more about the ACL vs Capabilities history, and that's enough for me.