Tinkering

This chapter evolves around the configuration of access control policy code Throughout the chapter, two developers asign ranging degrees of permissions to a system, thereby performing digital security as a material tasks, that requires probing and experiencing the effects of every configuration. Their tinkering and minute actions enact digital security not as a set of rules, but as series of subversive, ambiguious and uneasy decisions. The chapter ends with two implications for how to perceive of computer security as a matter of care, not choice, and how tinkering with digital security relates to testing.