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* The following table * provides a summary description of what the permission allows, * and discusses the risks of granting code the permission. *
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Permission Target Name | *What the Permission Allows | *Risks of Allowing this Permission | *
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suppressAccessChecks | *ability to access * fields and invoke methods in a class. Note that this includes * not only public, but protected and private fields and methods as well. | *This is dangerous in that information (possibly confidential) and * methods normally unavailable would be accessible to malicious code. | *