I guess when you spend most of every week finding horrible security flaws, most of them remotely triggerable (since those are the ones clients care most about) it's hard to get too riled up about about an egregious log file hygiene issue that affects only a tiny minority of OSX users.

Or, differently: do you really think that people who can run commands in your Terminal window can't already take control of the OS X kernel?

Also: I object to being designated HN's "resident security expert", and I didn't put my comment at the top of this thread.