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Weapons of mass assignment

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A Ruby on Rails app highlights some serious, yet easily avoided, security vulnerabilities.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 5
            May 2011
            134 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1941487
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