Larry Wall Quotes on Security
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Just don't create a file called -rf. :-)
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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.
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity. :-)
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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. :-)
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if (rsfp = mypopen('/bin/mail root','w')) { /* heh, heh */
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tmps_base = tmps_max; /* protect our mortal string */