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by stoperaticless 605 days ago
By disallowing, we normalise deviance (security wise).

Also, there can be a problem with who/how decides what is code. There are myriad of programming languages already, and for trolling or legal attack purposes, one could build interpreter using arbitrary words as keywords (to make problems for arbitrary company)

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> there can be a problem with who/how decides what is code.

Blocking names that look like code is part of a defence in depth approach, it's not a standalone silver bullet.

I meant abuse scenarios.

Laws eventually are use not as intended, but as written.

“defense[1]”, “if happy begin something end”, “if”. All of these technically are code (somewhere). Also check out some esoteric language like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_lang...