On Wed, 02 Jul 2003, Tim Greer wrote:
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>
> > My whole point was that this top ten list was highly subjective and that
> > insecure programs were really in the hands of the beholder /*again my
> > opinion*/.
>
> In a way, that's correct. However, in other ways it's not anything that can
> be argued. If you compare two programs and one is (a quick, lame Perl
> example):
Kudos to the moderator for allowing this war onto the list. It was
certainly educational (for me) to see this thorny topic argued with
logic. Especially Tim's use of a code example to demonstrate that
secure vs. insecure can be a matter of *fact* not just *opinion*
> Example A:
>
> chomp(my $helloworld = shift || '');
> system("echo $helloworld");
>
> And another is:
>
> Example B:
>
> chomp(my $helloworld = shift || '');
> die "Forget it, pal!\n" if $helloworld !~ /^\w+$/;
> system("echo $helloworld");
>
> Then there's nothing that's left to "opinion".
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Thanks to Kelly, Tim, Vic (and Chris)
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