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My web browser runs as root?

Atlas runs as root?

Atlas is a keylogger that indiscriminately watches what I type?

Are any of these things true?



I assume they mean a web browser has root access to everything you do online, which is so far-reaching nowadays that it's not far from having root over your whole machine in terms of actual exposure.



Yes





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