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There's a paper with [the same title](https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf), if you prefer consuming in that way.
"Thirty Years Later: Lessons from the Multics Security Evaluation", Paul Karger, Roger Schell (2002)
(acsac.org)
Key quotes:
* `Multics offered considerably stronger security than most systems commercially available today.`
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* `The unpleasant conclusion is that although few, if any, fundamentally new vulnerabilities are evident today, today’s products generally do not even include many ...
"Abstract:" "This thesis puts forward a flexible and principled approach to the development of construction and verification tools for imperative programs, in which the control flow and the data level are cleanly separated. The approach is inspired by algebraic principles and benefits from an algebr...
American woman pedals 184 mph, smashing record held by men for more than 100 years
(washingtonpost.com)