registry vulnerabilities in R
I spoke to someone in the military who did some investigation. This is his response
1. I'm sorry that I don't have anything good to report. The military is cautious with it's networks and I'm no longer able to use R at work. I don't know anything about this registry issue but the show stopper for me even trying to get R on the military network is CRAN. All that r-project checks on contributed applications is if they load (or compile as necessary) cross-platform. I could make an argument for the security of the Core functionality of R but not for the contributed packages.
On 5/8/12, Paul Martin <pamartin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
Kirtland Air Force Base has denied approval for the use of R on its Windows network. Some of their objections seem a bit strange, but some appear to be legitimate. In particular, they have detected registry "vulnerabilities" which are detailed in the attachment. I know nothing about Windows registry vulnerabilities. If any of these issues are legitimate concerns, I would like to see them fixed for everyone's benefit. I would appreciate a referral to the appropriate forum for this information. I am willing to assist in getting questions answered and gathering additional information. Thank you, Paul Martin Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland Air Force Base Albuquerque, New Mexico