unprivileged
Americanadjective
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lacking normal social or economic advantages or benefits; underprivileged.
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Computers. (of a user or account) having limited access to programs, data, functions within a program, etc.; not authorized to perform administrative tasks in a system.
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The researchers who found the new flaw performed their exploit on a Linux system and recommended mitigations, including the Retpoline fixes and disabling unprivileged eBPF on Linux systems that don’t already have it disabled.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022
“Because appellant had not shown a false and unprivileged statement that is attributable to and authorized by respondents, the trial court made the right decision.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
He saw lawyers’ truest vocation as fighting for the unprivileged, and he was cheered when they lived up to the moral demands of their calling.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2018
In a country where the average, unprivileged individual enjoys more opportunities for gratification than in any previous society, celebrities provide a symbolic test case, getting carte blanche to do what they please.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2012
A gladiator, though the crowd might almost deify him, was a casteless individual, unprivileged before the law, whom any franchised citizen would rate as socially far beneath himself.
From Caesar Dies by Talbot Mundy
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