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Jonathan wrote the kmilo-thinkpad plugin a while back. The idea in the future would be make KDE use the same infrastructure as GNOME and leave the thinkpad /dev/nvram key proxying to the lower-levels.
As noted by Timo above, this is started as root and therefore has (read) access to /dev/nvram, necessary to be able to produce the normal key presses.