Haugland I'll just quote the brief reason given in the post in the link to
Unknowns post at SMF's forum.
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"Because it makes things, like for example the package manager and attachments, work better."
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I have tested this with my test forum at a chmod 755 the package manager dose not work and some attachments and some Mods act weird or quit working.
And from the sounds of if SMF 1.1 final will be setup the same way. I do understand the security issue but the main original script person for SMF see it as not a issue.
And I have a 1 test forum and 3 live forums so it would be a royal pain to change. 