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Originally Posted by tlgerdes
It doesn't matter if you are an admin/root or not, background processes often run at higher levels of privilege than the logged on user, if you find an exploit in a system process like that then you usually run your exploit at that level as well, sometimes you can force the system into higher levels of privilage as well, this is often referred to as privilage escalation and can happen through a raft of methods, including device drivers etc.
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Trevor, we do what we can. There is a limit to how much you can idiot proof anything. You eventually run into a better class of idiot.