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in thread Trojan Horse? (taint mode)

For this to ruin your day, you would have to explicitly permit the execution of code within interpolated variables with use re 'eval'; So, like the example in the book, it looks scary on the surface, but isn't that bad in practice.

-Blake

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Re: Re: Re: Trojan Horse? (taint mode)
by chip (Curate) on Nov 27, 2001 at 01:58 UTC
    Boy am I glad I pushed for use re 'eval'. It's at times like this when paranoia pays off...

        -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

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