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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think there is kind of an assumption that the scenario is "outside host gains privileged access" so there's not really a security issue with some attacker deleting root on their own box.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

If it has been done properly you're right. If this also affected the host machine it is a security issue.