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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 got two out of three right when you said.NET and Java are limiting, but you left out XML (still mostly a solution still looking for a problem). For many tasks, XML is the least portable format). Consult your public relations team before posting about things your clearly do not understand. March 26, 2011 at 4:58 pm.

Java 107