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29:01 · 7.9K views · Dec 30, 2014
Netanel Rubin's 31C3 talk chains Perl's syntax quirks into a powerful remote code execution attack, taking down popular Perl-based projects.
Recommended as a funny, engaging look at how Perl's quirks create real security vulnerabilities.
3 comments from Hacker News
If you loved that video, try this great Perl presentation from Netanel Rubin: this video And it's follow-up cousin "The Camel Strikes Back" [LINK] (He says wat alot and it's hilarious)
Bit of offtopic: Best bash of a programming language „The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability“ this video And part 2 „The Perl Jam 2 The Camel Strikes Back“ [LINK]
Friends dont let friends write perl. Source: The legendary "Perl Jam" talk from the chaos communication congress. * this video * [LINK] Also I find the "ubiquity" argument very side loped. What I could agree with is "small/self-contained install" (e.g. small single executable available for many platforms). But not sure how well perl fares there.