On 5/5/05, Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:32:56AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
> > And I don't think arguing in the name of "security" for the default
> > case is going to buy us anything.  Security doesn't come in scripts in
> > any language for free; you have to walk through every line that sees
> > the outside world and ask "is there any way somebody could exploit
> > this?".  And a "-" handler would be one of the things you'd have to
> > routinely write, just like making sure they're not opening "; rm -rf
> > /".
>
> Why are you scare-quoting something I never said?

I'm scare-quoting everything today for some reason.  Sorry.

The issue has come up before, and one of the main arguments was "it's
more secure that way", which made so little sense, I thought that I'd
argue against it again.  Or something.

Luke

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