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Add Privacy and Security Considerations section
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<a class="tocxref" href="#privacy-and-security-considerations"
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<span>Privacy and Security Considerations</span></a
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<a class="tocxref" href="#impact-of-not-enforcing-protected-properties"
><bdi class="secno">8.1</bdi>
<span>Impact of not enforcing Protected Properties</span></a
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<a class="tocxref" href="#changelog"><bdi class="secno">A.</bdi> <span>Changelog</span></a>
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<section id="privacy-and-security-considerations" inlist="" rel="schema:hasPart" resource="#privacy-and-security-considerations"><a class="self-link" href="#privacy-and-security-considerations"></a>
<h2><bdi class="secno">8.</bdi> <span property="schema:name">Privacy and Security Considerations</span></h2>
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<p><em>This section is non-normative.</em></p>

<section id="impact-of-not-enforcing-protected-properties" inlist="" rel="schema:hasPart" resource="#impact-of-not-enforcing-protected-properties"><a class="self-link" href="#impact-of-not-enforcing-protected-properties"></a>
<h3><bdi class="secno">8.1</bdi> <span property="schema:name">Impact of not enforcing Protected Properties</span></h3>
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<p>The <a href="#protected-properties">Protected Properties</a> requirement is intended to prevent agents other than the WebID owner from modifying specific properties, notably <code>solid:oidcIssuer</code>. When a Solid server does not enforce these protections, the WebID Profile is open to attack:</p>
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<li>An agent with write access to the WebID Document can rewrite <code>solid:oidcIssuer</code>, redirecting Solid-OIDC authentication to an attacker-controlled OpenID Provider and impersonating the WebID owner.</li>
<li>Other Protected Properties may be similarly tampered with by an agent granted write access, depending on which properties a particular server fails to protect.</li>
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</section>
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<section class="appendix" id="changelog" inlist="" rel="schema:hasPart" resource="#changelog" typeof="spec:Changelog"><a class="self-link" href="#changelog"></a>
<h2><bdi class="secno">A.</bdi> <span property="schema:name">Changelog</span></h2>
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