Justice Karakatsanis relied on this limitation rather notably, but nonetheless recognized a reduced expectation of privacy based on a general finding about
system administrator privileges:
Not exact matches
FAA controls access
privileges according to the minimum necessary rule, with the most sensitive data, such as social security number, accessible only to one or more
system administrators as necessary.
Additional information whether the process is running with
administrator privileges, whether it is a 64 - bit
system, etc..
For example, if you want to access a
system folder your user account doesn't have permission to access, you'd need to right - click the Bash shell shortcut and select «Run as
Administrator» to launch the Bash shell with Windows
Administrator privileges.
Administrator and standard
privileges are still relevant in Windows 8.1, but the
system now allows you to set up your account as a Microsoft account, which is a roaming account that can be synced between disparate Windows 8.1 computers, or a local account, where everything is isolated to the machine you're using.
You can also choose to run the application as an
administrator in order to decrypt the
system protected data that you can't decipher using normal
privileges.
Many of you will be familiar with the concept, but for those that aren't, root access is like having
administrator privileges on a Windows PC or Mac, it allows you to go anywhere in the file
system, and do whatever you want.