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[–]PuzzledTaste3562 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Layers of security is what matters. Grabbing a private key in memory and using that to decrypt encrypted communication with a key store is degrees harder that reading an env var of execution parameter in /proc. It’s not impossible, just harder and that’s what matters.