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@mansr @clacke That depends. The risk is greater, but generally root access is provided to applications by using sudo (i.e. the application can use sudo to perform root operations). When sudo is called, a dialog box is displayed on the screen and the user can allow it or not.

Of course, this infrastructure could have bugs, so you're definitely adding risk. However, assuming no bugs, there is no direct risk introduced by rooting.