> other than as a user discovering a path to elevated privileges that was not anticipated by the designers Most of the time, a barrier to elevated privileges t

> other than as a user discovering a path to elevated privileges that was not anticipated by the designers Most of the time, a barrier to elevated privileges that was not correctly implemented, i.e. a bug, not anything the designer did not anticipate. > Can't you "brute force" even the most theoretically rock solid privilege boundary by simply attaching your own computer to the memory in question? So? Does that mean it's not worth looking at the paths where the attacker does not have physical access of the machine that sits in some data center's secured basement?