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Opera fixes backticks script - Duh!

  • APLawrence.com; By A.P. Lawrence (Posted by on CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial
People have been warning new programmers about backticks for years; do a Google search for "shell security backticks" and you'll see what I mean. This is basic level stuff, and it is beyond incredible that it bit these guys. I would like to charitably assume that this was just an error of sloppiness; because it was "just a shell script" programmers who darn well do know better just didn't look very closely. But it's still disturbing, isn't it?
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