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talking about security breaches... (Score:1)
The reason why world writable directories are a security breach is this: if the target system is a multiuser system, then any user gets write access to a disk area that was never intended to be usable for anybody but the owner. Just see this as opening an otherwise protected disk area to a third party. By allowing a third party to usurp a directory you open a system for all sorts of breaches including the removal and addition of files.
So letting directories be world writable must be a conscious decision of