> You can play with your words and redefine their meanings, but the vulnerabilities remain. I don't think OP was trying to play with words, I do think there's

> You can play with your words and redefine their meanings, but the vulnerabilities remain. I don't think OP was trying to play with words, I do think there's an absolute "this symlink thing is a vuln" vs an absolute "I use symlinks to make X work" argument. Symlinks have always been at the line between the absolutes. They do enable a great deal of functionality but they can be a security risk, and source of bugs when developers don't handle them correctly. That said, they are heavily used feature on unix like oses. My /usr/bin on Ubuntu has 48 of them (most were put there by apt installed packages).