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This is hacker news. If this was some code rather than in meatspace and you trusted a single client to modify a turning complete config file for everyone else y
by cmdrfred 10y ago
This is hacker news. If this was some code rather than in meatspace and you trusted a single client to modify a turning complete config file for everyone else you'd call it a massive security vulnerability. I don't understand how having humans involved changes that. Yes, they probably have good intentions but has that assumption ever worked out in human history? If it's not used today for something nefarious, it will be used tomorrow.
- danielweber 10y ago> This is hacker news Which is why people don't understand basic human institutions and are surprised when they run into issues trying to re-invent from scratch
- cmdrfred 10y agoGrace Hopper said it best 'The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way."'