
28 Sep
2012
28 Sep
'12
4:36 a.m.
Peter Ross wrote:
I don't know whether it is the language itself, or the fact that it is used by less experienced people.
Wikipedia's PHP article used to point out that while a quarter to a third of *ALL* vulnerabilities reported on MITRE were PHP-related, "only" about (IIRC) one in fifty of those were vulnerabilities in the PHP core (i.e. fuckups by the people who *write* PHP as opposed to the people who merely write *in* PHP). Sigh. Sadly, I didn't take a screenshot at the time and ICBF learning how to do version control in mediawiki. This still works: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/