Installing a compiler by default

[Scott Dier]

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> You misunderstand. A C compiler in itself does not compromise security,
> and if you phrased the question like that, I'd tell you it was BS as
> well. On a system that run services it is bad security practise to
> install a compiler, for reasons already explained, and the book Shawn
> points you at will reaffirm this.

Isn't having a interpreter of any sort just about the same problem?  If 
you can't do it with Perl, is it worth doing at all? ;)

Thanks,
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Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>