Cryxtalix

The permission to do admin things is given by the root user, to your account. So you have to verify your identity by entering your password.

Isn’t that how it is? I though that was analogous to how almost everything worked IRL. Whether withdrawing funds from a bank or engaging government services, you prove your identity as a customer/citizen to get the relevant services. At no point do you login to bank or government computers with full privileges.

For most of the article, I was wondering why people cared so much about some random network, they’ll go to the trouble of searching for and writing suggestions about it. People usually aren’t that interested in the network infrastructure at government facilities.

That’s some pretty significant context the writer didn’t even know until informed by a reader.

Someone watched an old Bond film.