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by jussij 3214 days ago
And those Windows ACLs form the foundation for higher level Windows security features like Active Directory, which itself is used as a foundation for many other aspects of Windows, so those ACLs are well and truly baked into the OS.
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Actually it goes a bit further than that.

Every object in the OS that can be represented by an OS handle, has security permission attached to it.

Files, registry, sockets, drivers,.....