Eric Hodel wrote: > On Apr 25, 2007, at 12:26, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: >> Jim Weirich wrote: >>> (4) Woah ... the prefix data looks a little revealing. Perhaps that >>> shouldn't be on the download page (i.e. I now know where one >>> prominent >>> JRuby developer keeps his JRuby installation). >> I tend to agree with this one. In most data-gathering software it's >> considered a big no-no to report personally identifiable information. >> I'm not particularly enthused that the structure of my JRuby path >> shows >> up in there. I'd also say this information is pretty useless to >> report, >> since there's an infinite number of places people might have Ruby >> installed > > How exactly is it sensitive? If I'm able to run code on the box I > can find ruby, via rbconfig.rb or traversing the filesystem. On the > other hand, if I had a non-ruby vector for getting into your machine, > I'm sure there's lots of other stuff I'd compromise before I got > around to messing with your ruby installation.
Little did you know that he's running RubyOS! Finding his Ruby intepreter would bring down the whole shebang. Literally. It's a joke people! Dan _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
