11-07-2016
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Obscurity is not security. ps is not a security tool. Even if you convinced ps to block the information, users could just get it direct from the source in /proc/####/comm.
Do you know for a fact that the first 80 chars never contains sensitive information, anyway? Commandline arguments were never a particularly safe place to put such things.
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tart-custom(5) LinuxTaRT template format tart-custom(5)
NAME
tart-custom - Template format for LinuxTaRT
DESCRIPTION
LinuxTaRT can use a user defined template file to generate the signature. The name and location of this file can be specified in
~/.tartrc, but defaults to the following location:
~/.tart-custom
PARAMETERS
LinuxTaRT recognizes the following directives in the template and replaces them with the corresponding values:
%c1 - CustomText1 from .tartrc
%c2 - CustomText2 from .tartrc
%tg - tagline
Randomly selected from the tagline database.
%hr - horizontal line
%dt - todays date
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12-hour format
%24 - current hour
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%ib - time in ibeats
%vi - LinuxTaRT version string
%% - the percent symbol (%)
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EXAMPLES
The following template:
LinuxTaRT - The Automatic Random Tagline
%hr
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%tg
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FILES
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