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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. That decision has caused a bit of head scratching, since it seems like a curious choice for most programmers in the community, but be that as it may this allowed posting XML at Rails apps to be trivially exploited. You now have a public relations nightmare on your hand.

Security 101
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. For many tasks, XML is the least portable format). December 2010. November 2010.

Java 107