Responding to a forum question about the release timing for Nvidia and AMD's next-generation graphics cards, the generally reliable leaker Kepler_L2 said on the AnandTech forums that ...
Linux file permissions are usually introduced as a way to decide who may read, write, or execute a file. On a production server, they do something more important: they help decide which lower-privilege users can influence work later performed by root ...
The incident shows why cloud modernization alone doesn't eliminate resilience risks, and why architects need to map dependency concentration and isolation and failure paths.