6 Larry Wall Quotes on Security

Larry Wall quotes on security

37. Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)

122. But the possibility of abuse may be a good reason for leaving capabilities out of other computer languages, it's not a good reason for leaving capabilities out of Perl.

140. Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. :-)

202. And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent within ActiveState. :-)

240. if (rsfp = mypopen('/bin/mail root','w')) { /* heh, heh */

244. tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */