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Github compromised, or not?!

Github compromised, or not?!

Posted Mar 5, 2012 21:10 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: Github compromised, or not?! by fogzot
Parent article: Github compromised

Yes.

The discussion in the Rails bug report is probably the best place to get the technical history of this: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/5228

And the likely plan for fixing Rails:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3664334 (philosophical/roadmap)
https://gist.github.com/1974187 (technical)


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Github compromised, or not?!

Posted Mar 5, 2012 21:32 UTC (Mon) by robinst (subscriber, #61173) [Link]

By the way, the default for new applications is already fixed:

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/641a4f62405cc276542...

And existing applications can enable the configuration option and fix their models to get the secure-by-default behavior.

Github compromised, or not?!

Posted Mar 7, 2012 11:32 UTC (Wed) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

How could this not have been obvious from the start? The more I read about this mass assignment thing the more I am saddened by web developers. Did they learn nothing from PHP?

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