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   by throttle 18y ago

   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 can make sound serio
2. 2.▲
   by throttle 18y ago

   Not hacker news.
3. 3.▲
   by throttle 18y ago

   ...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 platform you would use
4. 4.▲
   by throttle 18y ago

   Not hacker news.
5. 5.▲
   by throttle 18y ago

   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)...
6. 6.▲
   by throttle 18y ago

   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.
7. 7.▲
   by throttle 18y ago

   yea, he should definitely demand his money back...