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Subject: Please add a SECURITY docs section
Allowing serialization of objects is one of the best methods to take over a remote server. Serializers who allow deserialization of objects are unsafe. JSON and Data::MessagePack are currently the only ones who do not and are therefore regarded safe. This is a long explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzx6KlqiIZE this is a shorter one: http://www.masteringperl.org/2012/12/the-storable-security-problem/ This is a good sample paragraph: http://perldoc.perl.org/Storable.html#SECURITY-WARNING -- Reini Urban