Why Principle of Least Privilege Matters More Than Ever in a World of Backdoored Large Language Models (LLMs)
The concept of “principle of least privilege” has been around for a long time. In fact, it is older than me; there are papers from the 70s that discuss it: “Every program and every user of the system should operate using the least set of privileges necessary to complete the job.” (The protection of information in computer systems, Saltzer and Schroeder, 1974).