Week 02 · reflection

Week 2 Reflection: Trace the Responsibility Chain

Use your Service Responsibility Map.

Weekly summary

In 4–6 sentences, trace one service through this chain:

identity → process → service function → resource → permission → evidence

Explain why collapsing those layers into “the server” makes troubleshooting and security decisions weaker.

Reflection

  1. Which evidence source in Week 2 answered the most useful question for you: process state, service state, socket state, logs, or permissions? Why?
  2. What did one evidence source fail to prove?
  3. Why can running a service with more privilege make a symptom disappear without actually fixing the design?
  4. Which positive, negative, or regression retest gave you the strongest evidence?
  5. What resource or permission would you inspect next if the service still failed?

Final checkpoint

Complete:

The service needs permission to __________ because __________, but it does not need permission to __________ because __________.

That is least privilege expressed as a system relationship rather than a slogan.