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[Python-Dev] Re: Capabilities

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:29:25 +1300 (NZDT) 
Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>:

> If I understand them correctly, a Zope proxy where the security checker 
> always says "yes" is a capability. Except, possibly, they may be 
> forgeable, I don't know them well enough to know.

A security checker that could be easily forged wouldn't
be very, er, secure, would it?-)

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