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Message-ID: <bf0173120606161606h600846f4o69dd17a5dd882941@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:06:03 +1200
From: "Bojan Zdrnja" <bojan.zdrnja@...il.com>
To: "Darren Reed" <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof)
On 6/16/06, Darren Reed <avalon@...igula.anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> From my own mail archives, PHP appears to make up at least 4%
> of the email to bugtraq I see - or over 1000 issues since 1995,
> out of the 25,000 I have saved.
>
> People complain about applications like sendmail...in the same
> period, it has been resopnsible for less than 200.
>
> Do we have a new contender for worst security offender ever
> written ?
Well, PHP is a programming language and Sendmail is an application -
I'd say you are comparing apples and oranges here.
If you really want to compare applications, take phpBB for example
(which is the winner in this case), but I don't think it makes much
sense looking for a new contender for worst security offender ever
written ...
Bojan
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