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[Mark McEahern]

[Erno Kuusela]
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/evil.html
>
> evil (adj.) As used by hackers, implies that some system, program,
> person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth
> the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the
> cretinous/losing/brain-damaged series, `evil' does not imply
> incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design
> criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's.  [...]

Thanks.  What I was looking for was some elaboration on why he said the
whitelist technique was evil.

Cheers,

// mark

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