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Re: Perl essential ?



On 02 Mar 2001 14:17:10 +0300, Ilya Martynov <m_ilya@agava.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "MH" == Marc Haber <debian-devel.lists.debian.org@marc-haber.de> writes:
>    MH> I would really second this. perl is too powerful to be on a
>    MH> security relevant system.
>
>IMHO perl scripts can be much more secure that C code and shell code:

That is not my point. My point is that a system without perl has no
use as host for attacker tools that are written in perl. An attacker
would have to install perl first, making the system a less attractive
target.

>3) shell scripting ofthen very unsecure IMHO because of various shell
>   expansion feauteres.

I agree on that, but we definetely can't go without a shell.

Greetings
Marc

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