csvmonkey

Header-only vectorized, lazy-decoding, zero-copy CSV file parser

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Header-only vectorized, lazy-decoding, zero-copy CSV file parser

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As much as I love SQLite, and while it is open source, it is a single implementation that AFAIK has no published open specification. The only way to read an SQLite file is…

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2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	3
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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_wmd·Jun 12, 2017

I'm not "making a claim" or inventing a heuristic, you can test this trivially: $ git clone https://....:x-oauth-basic@github.com/dw/csvmonkey.git Cloning into 'csvmonkey'... remote: Counting objects: 340, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done. remote: Total 340 (delta 19), reused 27 (delta 10), pack-reused 303 Receiving objects: 100% (340/340), 138.93 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (212/212), done. $ cat csvmonkey/.git/logs/HEAD 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 c9d566bf167dcf3556008df58be37c4a27ff5062 David Wilson <dw@botanicus.net> 1497289486 +0100 clone: from https://....:x-oauth-basic@github.com/dw/csvmonkey.git If you perform a Git checkout on a web server e.g. as part of an Ansible script, and you embedded secrets in the repo URL (common enough, believe me)

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, then that secret is readable per above. FWIW this isn't some unbelievable theory or hypothetical scenario, I've seen plenty of Ansible setups like this and found domains with this exact problem in the process of writing http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/52587443706/devs-plea... a few years back

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