Re: [Fun With Perl] Paranoia.

[John Carter <john@dwaf-hri.pwv.gov.za>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Bill Jones wrote:

> eval join '', map { (split //, (' $().s/rlenJ2Ei;o"_MNP'
> ..'3Ot5{R}G*k,HILSTp1X\ab4cduvwhgA='))[$_] } split /\D+/,
> "d1o18n53'17t11_23y34o20u0_37t33h13i0n11k52_40t0h21a13t
> 27_35t0h19o23s20e29_13p27e36r0l11_0m42o45n31g5e16r10s48_
> 14f8r8o9m0_21j9a7c8k0o19n16s10o51n9v7i5l0l11e41_10a17r
> 15e0_6c0o2o2l4?3_3y0o6u15_0k46n16o0w26_0t38h7a14t10_24t
> 0h5e47y43_5a24r7e2_1w18o32r12l25d3_15r0e28n0o49u50n14d8_
> 9a0n2d0_5t6h2e2y4_3d4o26_12c22o28o3l0_1s12t0u2f4f3.2_4g
> 30i3v0e2_4y3o1u6r1s39e1l25f0_1t12e0n1_44p0o1i22n6t0s3";

FWP is a hazardous list.

The temptation when faced with something like this is to feed it into
perl and see what happens. But then I noticed the 'eval'. "What", said
my little voice of paranoia, "if that mess on the RHS came out looking
like a system("rm -rf ~")?"

Who is this Bill Jones bod anyway? Is he nice? Did I flame him at some
stage? Is the poster really Bill Jones? What if the answer to life was
41?

What is the most innocuous looking perl .sig that could do the most
harm? Is bungy jumping fun? Can one write a perl .sig worm? A little
innocous bitty of perl that wrote out "Just Another Perl Hacker" and
quietly tacked itself onto your .sig file? Who are those little green
men at the bottom of my garden?

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