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The developers of a not-insignificant portion of IoT firmware absolutely are bringing user input in from web forms and chucking it into shell scripts. And unfor
by gnfargbl 5y ago
The developers of a not-insignificant portion of IoT firmware absolutely are bringing user input in from web forms and chucking it into shell scripts. And unfortunately, it's that same class of developers that are disproportionately likely to pick up zx and run with it.
The point is, at this stage in the evolution of internet security, we pretty much know where the bugs come from. Injection attacks are still a huge practical problem. It would be nice if new scripting languages reduced that attack surface rather than increasing it.