[nylug-talk] PHP Security

[Michael B Allen]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:12:26 -0500
Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:

> Part of the problem with PHP is indeed its ease in which it allows insecure
> code to be run with wild abandon.  And part of it is just vernabilities which
> show up in the Zend engine itself, and more show up in the modules which are 
> unaudited and encouraged to be used by the PHP community which until a year ago 
> puh hoo'ed the constant security problems that plagued PHP installations and the
> coding methods being used. 

This entire post was nothing but more vague claims. Your link
outines basic issues that could apply to any language. Do you think
all that code you audited would be any better if it were written in
Python? Quoting Slashdot is amusing. When are you going to provide
something concrete? Just *one* thing.

Mike

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