Palantir co-founder and 8VC founding partner Joe Lonsdale spoke with CNBC two days ago. Lonsdale is backing Musk's bid for OpenAI. In the interview Joe stated:
"And so what Elon did is he got root access and he went to tech systems themselves. No one has done this in ever..."
Root access is not read only. Elon has full access to all system resource, the ability to modify critical files, install software, manage user permissions and make major system changes.
That's according to Elon's good friend, investor and fellow TechGod.
