diff --git a/Security-Overview.md b/Security-Overview.md
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@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ chown -R archivebox:archivebox /home/archivebox
 sudo -u archivebox archivebox add ...
 ```
 
-If you absolutely must run it as root for some reason, a footgun is provided: you can set [`ALLOW_ROOT=True`](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#ALLOW_ROOT) via environment variable or in your ArchiveBox.conf file.
+~~If you absolutely must run it as root for some reason, a footgun is provided: you can set [`ALLOW_ROOT=True`](https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox/wiki/Configuration#ALLOW_ROOT) via environment variable or in your ArchiveBox.conf file.~~ It was removed.
 
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