[H-GEN] 'C' problem

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> writes:

> Timely reminder never to put . in your path.  An early class of trojans
> involved getting a user to cd to a particular directory and then
> convincing them to call a commonly used binary.  Instead (because . was
> often at the beginning of their path) they would execute the trojan and
> suffer the consequences.

For a long time I had . at the end of my path until I realized I was
mistyping "sl" an awful lot.  I stopped shortly thereafter.
-- 
``I may have agreed to something involving a goat.''  -- CJ

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