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By the way, I'd want to mention that webmin is a useful tool, and it's written in perl4 style for somewhat good reasons :

because it was first written a long time ago when perl4 was de facto standard.
because it's supposed to run on operating systems that may provide only perl4 as default (many proprietary Unixen did until recently or perhaps still do even today)
because rewriting it entirely using taint mode and separate privileges would be a huge work and will break compatibility for gazillions of existing modules in the wilderness.
However, the real fault would belong to the administrator who'd leave an accessible webmin server on the web ! I wouldn't dare, even a secured, perl5 tainted webmin...

In reply to Re^2: Attack on Perl or Perl's need better PR (again) by wazoox
in thread Attack on Perl or Perl's need better PR (again) by wazoox

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