I must be the only one who doesnt care about this . I swear this community will find something to whine about . <| sep |> Same here . <| sep |> Maybe I am confusing the US one with Origin ' s sale . I know it is on sale in Europe for a fact though . <| sep |> At no point does the CEO have a role in the company that requires the access to change user comments . That ' s bananas . Maybe from some big company ' s perspective where the CEO is just yet another employee doing his job . But web startups are usually founded by their CEOs and those CEOs usually do technical stuff , too . And even if he stopped doing technical work at some point , if he is the owner and CEO , he got the maximum level of privilege anyway . Who is gonna stop him from just demanding root access ? He is the database admin ' s boss . Also , my second point was that even if one adhered to the principle of least privilege , this could happen anyway . A database administrator might go nuts and start joking around just as well .