Symbolic Links VS. Security

[Henry Spencer]

> As a person isolated from the US, I can only wonder why the UNIX
> tools (and system) implementors don't take more care with security.
> ...  Once an implementor
> thinks about such things ...
> ... then programs could be made *without* these recurring bugs.

Thinking before coding is something the Berklix authors didn't do very
consistently.  This is not to say that USG/USDL/whatever-it-is-this-week
is any better; most of *those* people can't think at all.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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