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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

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Rubygems used YAML to hold metadata about each gem submitted to it. An attacker was able to create a malicious gem, cause the Rubygems web application to evaluate the metadata contained in it, and thereby compromise the Rubygems server infrastructure. Anyone that downplays security is simply a bad developer for real projects.

Security 101
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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! s easier to use/develop with. Rovi : Need Metadata for music/movie/actors, etc.? Rdio : Want to add a music player on your website to play music? Try Leaflet.