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HotOS X, Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems — Abstract

Make Least Privilege a Right (Not a Privilege)

Maxwell Krohn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Petros Efstathopoulos, University of California, Los Angeles; Cliff Frey and Frans Kaashoek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eddie Kohler, University of California, Los Angeles; David Mazières, New York University; Robert Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michelle Osborne, New York University; Steve VanDeBogart, University of California, Los Angeles; David Ziegler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract

Though system security would benefit if programmers routinely followed the principle of least privilege, 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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