Re: PHP security (or the lack thereof)

[john mullee <jmullee () yahoo com>]

--- Darren Reed <avalon () caligula 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 ?

I guess most of the remaining offending apps were written in C: as much as 96% ?!!
(including basically all of microsoft's stuff!!)

Surely the least secure language of all time !!!

Note also that no vulnerable apps were written in:
 - cobol, rpg3, prolog, ada, scheme, lisp, pl/1, occam, modula-2, or MIX

We're planning to roll out our next enterprise ecommerce grid as a set of
modula-2 plugins to cobol-based container controlled by a dynamic gridded
application matrix written in prolog, all running on highly parallel
lisp machines.

;)

john


        
        
                
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