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If you are root, you can also strace the process and grab the password, without modifying anything.

If the platform isn't secure, the app can't be trusted. Basic defense rule.




I may very well be wrong (I'm far from an expert on SELinux) but I believe that the kernel would prevent that, assuming MCS.




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