Computer Security

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Computer Security.

• Fork bomb — A denial-of-service failure pattern in which a process recursively creates new processes until process-table, memory or scheduling resources are exhausted.
• Threat model — Represent a scoped system's assets, trust boundaries, adversary capabilities, plausible adverse paths, assumptions, impacts, and response priorities as a revisable security-decision artifact.