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Re:Capability Myths Demolished (2003) by erights on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:24PM (#22755685)
Much of my work on capabilities, from 1988 till now, can be found at https://research.google/people/author35958/ and at Agoric https://agoric.com/papers/ Agoric is bringing distributed object-capabilities to the modern world of decentralized crypto-commerce, including blockchains. Starting from object-capabilities, we're building a framework for highly composable smart contracts. Hack it at hackathon https://medium.com/agoric/spend-the-pandemic-inside-join-our...
Re:Capability Myths Demolished (2003) by magicalhippo on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:07AM (#22759085)
> https://agoric.com/papers/

For someone who hadn't really read about this before, I found this[1] article, linked above, to be a really nice introduction.

[1]: http://habitatchronicles.com/2017/05/what-are-capabilities/