# System Privilege System privilege describes authority granted by operating-system identity, signing, install partition, policy, or special capability. ## Notebook evidence PDF pages 22 and 25–26 of [[Scanned_20260730-1806]] record persistent/system/user states, shared UID, `READ_LOGS`, `android.uid.system`, `coreApp=True`, overlays, no-code packages, suspended state, and test-only state. ## Evidentiary rule Privilege is capability, not attribution or abuse. A complete record must state which package held the privilege, who signed and installed it, whether it matched known-good firmware, what APIs it invoked, and what runtime behavior was observed. ## Relationships [[Android sharedUserId]] · [[android.uid.system]] · [[Android Core App Flag]] · [[Android Package State Legend]].