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Github compromised, or not?!Github compromised, or not?!Posted Mar 5, 2012 13:57 UTC (Mon) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)In reply to: Github compromised, or not?! by epa Parent article: Github compromised
But in this case, it appears that he got pissed off at the "experts in that language" (rails) and took it out on "real users" (github). Not at all a nice thing to do.
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Github compromised, or not?! Posted Mar 5, 2012 14:33 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link] Seems more like he took it out on the expert's issue tracker, which just happens to be run by someone else. A kind of an in-your-face way to make your point, but very effective.
Github compromised, or not?! Posted Mar 8, 2012 22:06 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
And very necessary because Rails doesn't actually host anything itself. If you're going to demonstrate a trivial attack on Rails, you're going to have to select one of the many sites that use rails.
In this case, just demonstrating the attack is pointless because the docs already say, "don't do that." Homakov needed conclusive evidence that even good Rails programmers miss the docs sometimes.
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