Not exactly. That's why those same vendors work so hard at disabling root access for exactly the reasons outlined by the article; root can wreck it or maybe rea

Not exactly. That's why those same vendors work so hard at disabling root access for exactly the reasons outlined by the article; root can wreck it or maybe read out keys, or a million other little things because ALL of it is predicated on no one being able to just arbitrarily read/write to everything on the system like root/uid 1 can do.