I agree with you, fellow monks.

I ++ tachyon for creating smart code (which I cannot see, but sure it is), and ++ tye for hiding it from me - in 15 minutes after it was posted. But - it was posted for full 15 minutes!

I am sure it will be interesting to see the code, but I agree with andreychek there should by non-public place to discuss these things.

Most experienced monks are "saints" for a reason. They will not do harm even if they can. Less experienced malicious perl coder may be here lurking around. Do not provide him a tool to do wrong. Let him earn experience - when he will be able to build a virus, hopefully he will be saint and will not want to do it.

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So from now on, I should be scared to install any perl module, because I always need to analyze it if it does not contain perl source-code virus? Can I hope that CPAN testers will be able to catch virus posted in CPAN site?

Maybe smart saint monks might to get together, analyze virus, analyze virus cleaner, and put together some script parser to check for known virus concepts, and also some heuristic search for tricks possibly being used, to give me a warning which lines are suspicious?

I was just looking for a module on ActiveState site. Now I will do it anyway, but I definitely will read the source code - and learn something...

So I need to be concerned with tricks including SEEK and <DATA>, right?

pmas

To make errors is human. But to make million errors per second, you need a computer.

In reply to Re: Immoral? by pmas
in thread Morality of posting Perl "virus" code? by tachyon

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