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by akerl_ 4159 days ago
The problem is that identifying a dangerous command via a blacklist ends up being pretty difficult. This is why VMs and chroots and the like end up being so useful: the best way to make sure a command only accesses what it should is usually to give it specific explicit access to the resources it should have, rather than blacklisting what it can/cannot run.