Hmmm. Let me think. Maybe that would be because any user can crash
their X server, but you need the appropriate permissions to overwrite
/dev/{mem,sda}. You can't protect the system from a malicious or
incompetent user with root access. You can protect it from "normal"
users.
Tet
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