Security Concerns Paramount After Early Reviews of Diaspora Code

Stoobalou writes with this excerpt from Thinq.co.uk: "Following the release of the source code for the Diaspora social networking platform, hackers and tinkerers the world over have been poring over the code in order to improve, enhance, and otherwise help the project in its attempt to unsettle Facebook. Sadly, the current opinion is that the code just isn't up to scratch. While the team clearly stated that 'we know there are security holes and bugs' in the code that was released, it's possible that they weren't aware of just how many show-stopping issues there are — issues which make it hard to recommend that you roll your own Diaspora server just yet."

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Re:This isn't necessarily a bad thing

[Disgruntled Goats]

Is anyone actually surprised that a bunch of Ruby developers can't write secure code? Besides, the performance is probably going to be as shitty as Ruby on Snails as well.