Naturally, an actual Grassroots Social Networking application may integratethe two protocols to provide both public feeds and private groups

The WhatsApp-like network has private groups, members of each group being both the authors andfollowers of its feed

One such way that social media accounts are exploited is when users are enticed to download malicious browser extensions that request read and write permissions on all websites. These users are not aware that later on, typically a week or so after being installed, the extensions will then download some background Javascript malware from its command and control site to run on the user's browser.

Effective permissions are the roles and data restrictions that a member is assigned via other resources (like the organization, a user group, or an account that includes the current property) plus all the direct permissions assigned explicitly for the current resource. Direct permissions are role and data restrictions that a member is assigned explicitly for the current resource (e.g., organization, account, property).

Chapter 5: Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation

“The alarming truth,” warned the researcher, “is that the average number of permissions requested by a flashlight app is 25.”

“Asking for too many permissions is dangerous,” ESET malware researcher Lukas Stefanko explains. “These permissions can be misused as an exploit to access more device components, such as call logs, phone numbers, and browsing history.”

At the heart of Google’s challenge has been so-called permission abuse—millions of apps requesting the rights to access device data and functions beyond those needed to deliver their own functionality.

The security feature in Android 11 is a long overdue crackdown on this permission abuse.

Google’s novel response has been to compare each app to its peers, identifying those that seem to be asking for more than they should, and alerting developers when that’s the case. In its update today, Google says “we aim to help developers boost the trust of their users—we surface a message to developers when we think their app is asking for a permission that is likely unnecessary.”

Many 3rd parties has some magic parameter which blocks the cookie, but doesn't block the functionality of the element, and I'm looking for something like that. For example brightcove player has a data attribute. Video is working, cookies are not set.

If you recall your LMS patent infringement history, then you'll remember that roles and permissions were exactly the thing that Blackboard sued D2L over.

(At the time, Stephen Downes mocked me for thinking that this was an important aspect of LMS design to consider.)

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