Explain yourself
At some point or another, every application needs to handle authorization processes.
Most authorization engines require your application code to jump through loops to check and change access rights. You end up polluting your code with things that don't have anything to do with authorization.
"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, "I-I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
"What do you mean by that?" said the Caterpillar sternly. "Explain yourself!"
"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir" said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see."
"I don't see," said the Caterpillar.
Talos provides expressiveness to authorization code. It looks almost like english. Sure, it's not buzzword-compatible, but it's clean. You can check access rights and change them in single-line commands, directly from the code, without dealing with external XML, policy files, and classpath. See for yourself.
