Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2013, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Sandboxing programming languages is very difficult; most languages >> don't even attempt it. Perl used to have a sandboxing module and gave >> up on it because it was too hard, thus making it even less secure than >> Java in that specific respect, but no one calls it a security >> nightmare. > It still exists; it's called Safe. It works fairly well, but it's really > hard to balance actually being able to execute code that does anything > useful with maintaining security. Oh, I thought they'd given up on Safe. For some reason it stuck in my mind that it had too many issues and ended up being deprecated. Apparently, I either made that up or misremembered something. Thanks for the correction! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vc7sqldm....@windlord.stanford.edu
