Is there anyway to avoid this security issue in Lua?

Question

I was just working on a localizable Lua string solution, when I came up with this hack, problem is I don\'t know how to avoid getting hacked by it :) So I was wondering if a

Answer 1

This security problem is typically illustrated with this sentence, said by Ford Prefect in the brilliant books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway

My ability to write code cannot be said to be a security vulnerability, and if you can't control your code, that is your security problem, not what that code can do.

There are tons and tons of things you can do if you can just get the machine to execute some of your code. The security is to avoid getting the code in there in the first place. Everything after that is just collateral damage.

The way to avoid being hacked by that problem is to avoid getting unknown code into your application.