“Pwning coworkers thanks to having them run a program written in a Turing-complete language” just doesn’t have the same ring, eh?
having them run a program written in a Turing-complete language
I guess there could be a disconnect between a user’s expected security and the reality, but…
I think it’s reasonable to consider latex a “data format”.
I disagree. Data formats generally don’t contain branch conditionals, loops, and functions.
excel sheet?
Or Word macros. For some reason Microsoft catches a lot of heat for allowing their document format to run external programs, but it’s just fine here?
Hm. Besides a VM making sense for such a picky setup as TeX, how come \write18 is activated by default on Ubuntu? Any TeX setup I’ve seen up until now has the default (off) for security reasons.
“Pwning coworkers thanks to
having them run a program written in a Turing-complete language” just doesn’t have the same ring, eh?I guess there could be a disconnect between a user’s expected security and the reality, but…
I think it’s reasonable to consider latex a “data format”.
I disagree. Data formats generally don’t contain branch conditionals, loops, and functions.
excel sheet?
Or Word macros. For some reason Microsoft catches a lot of heat for allowing their document format to run external programs, but it’s just fine here?
Hm. Besides a VM making sense for such a picky setup as TeX, how come \write18 is activated by default on Ubuntu? Any TeX setup I’ve seen up until now has the default (off) for security reasons.