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GitHub incidents spawns Rails security debate

GitHub incidents spawns Rails security debate

Posted Mar 27, 2012 17:31 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: GitHub incidents spawns Rails security debate by jwakely
Parent article: GitHub incidents spawns Rails security debate

I agree with what you said. But that's quite different from this:

> Rails basically gives the whole world read/write access to your database by default, by design.

If that were true, Rails sites would be getting pwned left and right.

I'd guess Model.new(params[:model]) isn't used in many production Rails sites. Not in any of the ones I've worked on anyway.


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