why use special config formats?

[Fredrik Lundh]

"gangesmaster" wrote:

> > Binary configs only keep out legitimate users who don't have the time or
> > ability to learn how to hack the binary format. Black hats and power users
> > will break your binary format and hack them anyway.
>
> then you dont know what pickle is. pickle code is NOT python bytecode.
> it's a bytecode they made in order to represent objects. you cannot
> "exploit" in in the essence of running arbitrary code

import pickle
print pickle.loads("cos\nsystem\np0\n(S'echo really?'\np1\ntp2\nRp3\n.")

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