I'm gonna go against the grain on this one and call it karma whoring. Here's the formula: 1) Pick a company that has been the source of recent controversy. 2) Find a silly security flaw in one of their products that you…
Not hacker news.
...which further proves my point that Ruby is a bad, bad platform choice for production applications right now. You just can't have this level of insecurity, sloppiness, and unresponsiveness among the developers in a…
The mistakes are so amateurish that it should raise questions about the rest of the codebase (i.e. the defects which are yet to be found)...
Haven't you heard about the egregious buffer overflow vulnerabilities found recently in Ruby? Not a good idea to use it for anything serious in light of those, IMO.
yea, he should definitely demand his money back...
I'm gonna go against the grain on this one and call it karma whoring. Here's the formula: 1) Pick a company that has been the source of recent controversy. 2) Find a silly security flaw in one of their products that you…
Not hacker news.
...which further proves my point that Ruby is a bad, bad platform choice for production applications right now. You just can't have this level of insecurity, sloppiness, and unresponsiveness among the developers in a…
Not hacker news.
The mistakes are so amateurish that it should raise questions about the rest of the codebase (i.e. the defects which are yet to be found)...
Haven't you heard about the egregious buffer overflow vulnerabilities found recently in Ruby? Not a good idea to use it for anything serious in light of those, IMO.
yea, he should definitely demand his money back...