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kccqzy • today at 12:59 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

LPEs are frequent enough that people no longer use low-privilege user accounts to sandbox potentially malicious software. They are only used to control access for well-behaved users without any intent to subvert the system, not attackers.

The difference here reminds me of the distinction between the regular Paxos algorithm and the Byzantine Paxos algorithm.