On 1 Apr 2009, at 06:13, Chad Woolley wrote:

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
It seems that there was a bogus github gem floating around, mojombo- grit.
 It was adding directories to the file list...  I'm investigating it.

Hmm:  
http://github.com/mojombo/grit/commit/4ac4acab7fd9c7fd4c0e0f4ff5794b0347baecde

What I'm wondering is - how easy would it be to do this maliciously
and with greater effect, if this minor snafu caused problems.

Create a github user called ruby, now you can easily replace any of the ruby- projects with new counterparts from the github gem server, for a great many users.

1 of many


How's that circle of trust thing coming?

-- Chad
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