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in reply to Re: Trojan Horse? (taint mode)
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