Re: Debian two-factor auth, GSoC?
On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Sandboxing programming languages is very difficult; most languages
> don't even attempt it. Perl used to have a sandboxing module and
> gave up on it because it was too hard, thus making it even less
> secure than Java in that specific respect, but no one calls it a
> security nightmare.
It still exists; it's called Safe. It works fairly well, but it's
really hard to balance actually being able to execute code that does
anything useful with maintaining security.
Don Armstrong
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But if I did...
It would be you.
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