bugtraq - Re: PHP as a secure language? PHP worms? [was: Re: new linux malware]

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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:00:23 +1100
From: Kevin Waterson <kevin@...ania.net>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: PHP as a secure language? PHP worms? [was: Re: new linux
 malware]

This one time, at band camp, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org> wrote:

>
> Indeed, the most annoying thing about the PHP worms today is that these 
> PHP vulnerabilities being exploited are everywhere.

These are not PHP vulnerabilities, these are application vulnerabilities.

> 2. Developing secure applications in PHP is difficult, as one of PHP's 
> creators said recently - even to him after years of trying.

Who said this? do you have a source?

> 3. Staying on top of new PHP vulnerabilities has become impossible, 
> popping around everywhere.

Application vulnerabilities...

kevin

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