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by bandrami 4067 days ago
Yes, it's only due to a bug in file(1), but still that's kind of ridiculous

I point again to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

If you are reading in from a file, and you make decisions that are complex enough to be S- and K- combinators (or a concept of "if" and "jump", or some other minimal set), then you have given an attacker a Turing machine.

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I agree.

But what I'm saying is that the Turing machine should not be connected to a gun. And being hooked up to an idle gun should not be the default for every program.