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Reading the title, I thought this was going to be about a backdoor in the Unix program...

• hagbard_c 2y ago
  That'd be a bit of a non-sequitur as cat would not be of much use if it weren't for its ability to use its ear [1]. [1] see /dev/stdin or &1 - cat only listens in mono
• cupantae 2y ago
  My assumption was something like environmental variables - how much a simple command like cat is listening to your computer