News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A Better Way to Manage the Rails Secret Token. Parent comment

Re:A Better Way to Manage the Rails Secret Token by ctz on Monday May 20, 2013 @06:32AM (#5736855)
Certain weird-shit UNIX operating systems do not provide privacy for a process's environment. (eg. another user on the same box can see them with 'ps e'). More relevantly, POSIX does not require it. The same is not true of process memory.
[ Parent | on HN ]

There are no comments on this comment yet.