

Those processes are server processes and they are supposed to always run in the background. In that way they are ready to be accessed by client software immediately. For why they are root: often but not always servers need elevated privileges, e.g. to open ports below 1024 or read restricted files.






I would say yes. I couldn’t think of a country without organized crime. It doesn’t always have a fancy name and maybe it is very lowkey, but this I’d take as a sign of being well organized.