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The Escalation Ladder

When every user request becomes a climb toward domain admin, O and Cyrus discover the real meaning of privilege escalation.

O, a small purple robot, says Just temporary admin at the bottom of a permission ladder while Cyrus the raccoon replies Nobody climbs back down.

"Just temporary admin" is the "just one more cookie" of IT security. Spoiler: nobody ever climbs back down.

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