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This is what a root debug backdoor in a Linux kernel looks like

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Re: Writing to /proc as user?

"Why are user processes, presumably in some sort of sandbox for protection against dodgy stuff, allowed to *write* to /proc? "

Quite - although (for example) in my copies of OpenSUSE only ~ 3 entries are writable - and that only by root. True also for the pi(s) with one exception.

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