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by sporksmith 1244 days ago
> if you're allowed to look inside the process, which would be for similar reasons to why you're allowed to look inside a configuration file belonging to the user

On recent Linux distros, by default you can't ptrace (or read memory via /proc/x/mem etc) of non-child processes https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/LSM/Yama....