From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> "John Beckett" 
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> > Apparently, the claim is that you can write a monad script that will (for
> > example) find other scripts and replace them with itself (if the current
> > process has write permission).
>
> Considering these are proof of concept, my guess is the claim was that you
> couldn't and this is proof that you can. Sort of like the recent ciscogate
> thing where for years cisco has claimed that you couldn't execute code on
> IOS via a remote exploit.

Uh oh - you may not have thought about what you're arguing!

It is obvious that any decent scripting or programming language can produce
a program that can do malicious things. It is pretty trivial to write a
script that finds other scripts and changes their contents.

Cisco really does have a problem. By contrast, there is no vulnerability in
Monad, other than the obvious fact that if you run a script it can do bad
things.

John

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