Apps Messaging -- A New Approach

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, John Taylor wrote:

> This is something I've vacillated about for some time.  Like you, I think 
> that application-spoofing is actually pretty unlikely, so I wouldn't be in 
> favour of adding a lot of complication in order to deal with it.  I'd rather 
> just put a warning on the spec "don't expose rm -fr * in your application 
> through the messaging system!".

That obviously sounds like sensible advice as stated, but in the case 
I was working with there was no way to prevent the possibility of 
executing an rm -r if you wanted to be able to send general commands 
to GAIA, which was something we did want to do.

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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