I think the whitelist makes more sense, since you can never say for sure that you've added every potentially harmful program to the blacklist. If it's easy to

I think the whitelist makes more sense, since you can never say for sure that you've added every potentially harmful program to the blacklist. If it's easy to add things to the whitelist, as the parent comment proposed, I think the idea would work very well, especially considering most people have a relatively small number of commands they pipe other commands into. Btw, if you want to see all the commands you've ever piped data into, sorted by frequency, you can use this command (which I put together using `up`!) history | grep -o '| \w\w*' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | nl