On 14/02/2012, at 9:30 AM, Gé Weijers wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joe Mistachkin has recently added support for calling TH1 scripts on certain 
> actions.
> See http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/0b61e3c019
> 
> In the jimtcl branch, TH1 is replaced with Jim Tcl, so any of these scripts 
> has the full power of Jim Tcl, including exec.
> 
> 
> This sounds a whole lot like mobile code. I was left wondering: would it be 
> enough to do a 'fossil clone <something>' to download a malware script
> onto my system? How is this capability secured?

I'm sure Joe could tell you how it is implemented, but I don't see how it would
make any sense to clone these scripts. Aren't some settings transferred with 
clone and some not?
Surely these are in the "not" group.

Cheers,
Steve
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