[R-pkg-devel] Urgent Review of R Packages in Light of Recent RDS Exploit

[Maciej Nasinski]

Dear Ivan,

Your blog post is fantastic and I already start to promote it on LinkedIn with full credit to you.

KR
Maciej Nasinski
University of Warsaw

> On 3 May 2024, at 12:04, Maciej Nasinski <nasinski.maciej using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ivan,
> 
> Thank you for such a quick response.
> “It may be worth teaching people that, in general, R data files should be
> as trusted as R code.” I totally agree and that why I wrote that any code can be dangerous if run without proper scrutiny.
> A few linkedin post generated most probably by Chat GPT (a lot of icons in them) make a lot of harm lastly. For sure I will try to make a post in my community and will remind that any code can be dangerous.
> 
> BTW. we can limit the possible scan with crandb downloads stats to only those which have more than x downloads a day:) I image it will be a demanding project.
> 
> KR
> Maciej Nasinski
> University of Warsaw
> 
>> On 3 May 2024, at 11:52, Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It may be worth teaching people that in general, R data files should be
>> as trusted as R code.