Using The SubL Interactor
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Most users of the OpenCyc Web Interface will not use the SubL
Interactor. The SubL interactor allows arbitrary SubL forms to
be evaluated by the OpenCyc application. The evaluated forms are not
limited in any way, so it is quite possible for mistakes to crash the
application, or to corrupt its datastructures. Most Cyc operations are
better handled by one of the Web Interface's other facilities.
The SubL interactor also introduces a security weakness: SubL is
a general-purpose programming language which includes functions for
reading and writing files, so the entire network accessible to the Cyc
Server is potentially compromised. Machines running Cyc should be on
a secure internal net.
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Last Update: 03/28/2002