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What Is Client Side Access Control?

date Sat Jul 04, 2015 category What is ... ?
tags Security Client Vulnerability Access Development

Client side access control is at hand, when the process or mechanism that enforces a users set permission is implemented on the users end of the application. The issue with this approach is, that a user has full control over their machine, and therefore the upper hand when it comes to protective mec...