Permission
An app's request to access a part of your phone, like your camera or contacts.
Learn it through a story
- The Game That Asked for Too Much (Cybersecurity for Juniors 1, Ch 3)
- The Forwarded Message With a Secret Order (Jugnupur Tales Vol 2, Ch 6)
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Related terms
- Payload The data section of a JWT, encoded but not encrypted, readable by anyone holding the token.
- Payment confirmation screen The step showing the receiving name before a payment is finalised.
- Perimeter The boundary a security approach is built around, once the network edge, now increasingly identity.
- Permission creep When an app asks for more access than its actual job needs.
- Permission drift Configuration gradually becoming more permissive than originally intended, often unnoticed.
- Permission scope Exactly what data or actions a tool has requested and been granted access to.