What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup
Code execution while deserializating / parsing data is my first and uttermost concern.  Nowadays I'm in Clojure land and it's still not entirely clear as to what I can and cannot do and what the language as to offer me so that data doesn't contain rogue code that is going to be executed.In Common Lisp, for example, as far as I know you can set a flag so that the reader is set to "no evaluation ever" (if I understand things correctly) and, hence, if you're not using eval yourself specifically, nothing is ever going to be evaluated.But how would that work in Clojure?  And what about other languages?  Ruby?  Haskell?  Java? C#?I think the ability to execute code became the most important security issue (more than buffer overflow/overrun which can now be prevented --even sometimes provably impossible to happen thanks to theorem provers).More thoughts should be put into explaining how/when a language / API can execute code and how it should/can be used to prevent such a thing from happening.