Masem wrote:

You have to decide where you are going to pack the security features; if you do it in perl, you lose orthogonality, if you do it on the file system, you lose 'security' by your thoughts (please correct me if I'm wrong).

You understood me correctly. My thoughts on security are pretty simple: if they're out to get you, paranoia makes good sense.

Who are 'they'? Anyone who's not Ovid. What does 'out to get you' mean? Doing anything which may affect my code and what it does, whether or not it's intentional. I try to be ultra-paranoid when I write a CGI script. As a result, I don't want to trust anything outside of my code. Of course, I can't stop another programmer from going in an changing my code, but I don't want my code to be dependant upon what others have done. I suppose it's just finding a balance between what's reasonable and what's so frickin' stupid (perhaps my code?) that I deserve to be shot for writing it. Realizing that operating systems often have a certain level of security built into them, perhaps I can rely on this. On the other hand, I have a significant weakness in that I don't understand much about the operating systems themselves, or how they are set up. I tend not to want to rely on something that I don't know well.

Hmm... obviously I need to learn more about this area.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re(2): Orthogonal Code and Security by Ovid
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