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by immibis 464 days ago
But... You have to see things that way or else literally everything becomes a security concern.. Extra whitespace before a semicolon? I don't see how it can be exploited, but with the mindset you imply, I have to treat it as a security concern. But removing the whitespace is also a security concern.
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Yes, general computers are fundamentally unsafe. We should always think about threat models, vulnerabilities, blast radii, defense in depth.

What we should never do is dismiss something as a non-concern because we don't know how it could be a problem. Especially when someone is trying to point out something we're doing is extensively documented as a security concern. In that case it would be quite obtuse to claim in a public discussion that the person pointing it out is wrong because you don't understand the issue, and yet I have lived through that.