On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 14:48:01 Jeremy Visser wrote:
> > Yes, but it is pushed on to users and powershell scripts can be very
> > dangerous ... given exception to run without checking by AV and
> > other protections!!!!  To me, powershell is another great big
> > security problem just wanting to be exploited, which is a real pity
> > considering MS has otherwise taken pretty giant strides in the right
> > direction on safety and security matters overall in recent times
> > (there are other exceptions of course).
> 
> I've read some pretty dumb FUD about Windows in the past, but I think 
> that takes the cake.
> 
> Do you actually have any logical and well-thought-out reasons for why 
> PowerShell is a security issue?  If so, it may be helpful to state them, 
> as such a claim requires quite a bit of substantiation.

It's not uncommon for people to want to have special SE Linux labels for Perl 
and other language interpreters because they consider them a security risk.  
As restricting access to interpreters such as Perl will break everything on a 
typical Linux system we haven't been interested in doing such things.

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