Thursday, August 11, 2005

register_globals is not evil - PHP Security Blog:
"During the last months, more and more self proclaimed PHP security experts have started spreading the FUD, that register_globals is evil and that you should always switch it off, when you develop or deploy an application. This has resulted in vendors ignoring or playing down vulnerabilities, which are only exploitable when register_globals is turned on. Even when their own hoster has this option activated, they claim the vulnerability is in PHP's register_globals and not in their application."


If your code is exploitable because of register_globals being on, then its just bad code. Their are much more secure ways to do things.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...