Fair enough. I guess it was a bit of a knee jerk reaction. I'm just not fond of those who blame the tool instead of the user (and to me that seemed to be what the author was doing). The presentation seemed a little cavalier to me.

I'm mediocre at best (but improving, thanks perl monks) and tend to be very paranoid. However, it still seems horrifically lax not to look up these sorts of things (to me at least). I do mostly data munging so I'm hardly an expert.

You are right though. Consider me properly chastised. :)