From: Randall Parker 

Geo,

Why would shared source files for the scripts be a compromise if they are
all read-only for us users? If we are each running in our own personal
process context (which I assume is the case) then where does the
vulnerability come in?

Geo. wrote:
>
>>I really like the way Hosting Matters puts tons of Perl, PHP, MySQL, and
>>other stuff on their Linux servers. If I need some Perl module they
>>don't already have installed they put it on in a jiffy.
>
>
> Bad practice, it's not safe. At a minimum they have probably exposed your
> site to every other website owner on the box where your site is hosted. (try
> and make perl so it's limited to just one site sometime, it's impossible).
>
> Geo.
>
>

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