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Interesting thought from Jon Udell on why accountability (Dan Geer quote: you can pretty much do anything though if you screw up badly we will find you and make you pay) scales better than ACLs. I'm not sure I agree if the implication is that you need no protection, but I could see if as an argument that a "reasonable" amount of ACL security is sufficient, even if not "perfect", with accountability doing the rest. I wonder how Ray Ozzie would respond, given the security-intensive model of Groove?