>There are an awful lot of security issues there...

Can you give me an example?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Sugalski" <dan / sidhe.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:38 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:30401] Re: snippet exchange (was: Re: Re: chomp for
arrays?)


> At 06:31 AM 1/7/2002 +0900, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> >A daydream of mine is a "super-require" that if the file was not found,
the
> >loader would go to a central place on the web and load it (sort of like
> >marimba).  I don't tend to use other people's modules just because I'm
too
> >lazy to find and install them.
>
> That's a rather dangerous thing to implement. There are an awful lot of
> security issues there...
>
> Dan
>
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