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by JackRabbitSlim 2245 days ago
Not exactly. That's why those same vendors work so hard at disabling root access for exactly the reasons outlined by the article; root can wreck it or maybe read out keys, or a million other little things because ALL of it is predicated on no one being able to just arbitrarily read/write to everything on the system like root/uid 1 can do.