Protection and privilege

Least Privilege and More

“f) Least privilege: Every program and every user of the system should operate using the least set of privileges necessary to complete the job. Primarily, this principle limits the damage that can result from an accident or error. It also reduces the number of potential interactions among privileged programs to the minimum for correct operation, so that unintentional, unwanted, or improper uses...

Immune Privilege

T he concept of immune privilege refers to the observation that tissue grafts placed in certain anatomical sites, including the brain and eye, can survive for extended periods of time (1). Immune privilege is thought to reflect an evolutionary adaptation to protect vital structures from damage by inflammatory responses directed against pathogens. It was originally believed that antigens in immu...

Syntactic Privilege

This pape r i s a d d r e s s e d t o the v iew o f Schank and B i r n baum (1981) t h a t s y n t a x has no " p r i v i l e g e d ' p o s i t i o n i n p a r s i n g . E v i d e n t l y what i s meant i s ( a ) t h a t s y n t a c t i c p a r s i n g has no logical or temporal priority over semantic processing, and (b)that syntax has been as@igned attention far out of proportion to its intere...

Make Least Privilege a Right (Not a Privilege)

Though system security would benefit if programmers routinely followed the principle of least privilege [24], the interfaces exposed by operating systems often stand in the way. We investigate why modern OSes thwart secure programming practices and propose solutions.

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