> It's fine for Windows and Mac OS to do without them and it's fine to configure your own Linux system to disable them if that's what you want, but it's complet

> It's fine for Windows and Mac OS to do without them and it's fine to configure your own Linux system to disable them if that's what you want, but it's completely insane to argue that they're a security flaw because some people work around them using insecure practices. I guess we will also be making distros with `sudo` without a password to stop some people writing insecure scripts that try to pass it via plaintext stdin. This should be default for _every_ Linux system because some Linux server admins copy insecure code from StackOverflow. /s