I'm not sure what that means or how the second statement follows. You can't firewall the kernel from making network socket calls either, because the kernel is w

I'm not sure what that means or how the second statement follows. You can't firewall the kernel from making network socket calls either, because the kernel is what implements the firewall. Of course the service manager is going to have higher privileges than every other process on the system, because it has to supervise all the other processes.