[ale] CRITICAL LINUX FLAW OPENS THE DOOR TO FULL ROOT ACCESS (RHE)

[Solomon Peachy]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 02:03:22PM -0400, leam hall via Ale wrote:
> That's like blaming PHP the language for bad web pages. If you don't
> filter input you put yourself at risk. Ayers lost credibility since
> the same flaw couple be implemented in most other languages.

Oh, I absolutely blame PHP-the-language.

The language should make it easy to do things the Right Way, and more 
difficult to do things badly.  Shell and PHP are particularly bad in 
that respect.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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