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by pmontra 3218 days ago
Developer machines could be as interesting as servers, maybe more. If they can install a keylogger using a malicious or hijacked gem, then bingo!

The file overwrite and the ANSI sequence vulnerabilities are extra attack vectors. The main one has anyways been the code itself and its vetting process. This for Ruby gems and for any other open and closed source piece of code we run on our machines, starting from the processor(s) microcode.