[vidarh]

The example above is someone who have stupidly started a process with the environment variables exposed on the command line

[yrro]

Ok, but that's not a problem caused by the exposure of the environment, it's caused by the exposure of the command line.

[vidarh]

I agree - I was just explaining what the issue the above commenter raised. It just means you should use a saner way of initializing your environment with sensitive values.