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The bugs aren't in the code, and this whole subthread begun from what LeoNatan25 wrote is a tangent. The bugs are in the design, of downloading programs from random untrusted anybodies on the World Wide Web and running them, indeed of downloading programs from random untrusted anybodies on the World Wide Web and running them with elevated privileges. In order to test whether they are malicious, no less.


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