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On Tue, 2017-06-13 at 10:40 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
[...]
> There are plenty of other examples of things you can do to screw up the
> state of your system if you have the right permissions for which the
> answer is "don't do that". Consider MEM(4), SETPCI(8), ... /dev/sda ...
> for example.

So what is the problem?!
And that pretty much answers it for the Unix world IMHO (FWIW) ...

And there is *a lot* more of that if you are root.
WTF - that actually is the job definition of root/administrator/
supervisor/... to be able to fix (almost) everything and that implies
practically the rights to be able to do everything.

MfG,
	Bernd
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