# Unable to load pickle data

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-load-pickle-data/4620
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [July 3, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-load-pickle-data/4620 "2017-07-03T15:02:25Z")
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### Author: ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2017, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/unable-to-load-pickle-data/4620/2 "2017-07-03T15:56:46Z")

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CIFAR comes in Binary version.  
This really should be preferred over Pickle anyway.  
Pickle is insecure and can run malicious code.  
(Eg if the authors site had been hacked)

The binary version is easily parse-able using julia

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