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The principle of least privilege has an often-overlooked precondition: the permissions granted must be sufficient to complete the task; when permissions are drawn too narrowly, the subject cannot perform its duties, and in practice people look for workarounds, which instead creates more covert and harder-to-audit temporary channels.
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