Thursday, February 02, 2006

Security-related bugs are good. No, really! - Marco Tabini

Security-related bugs are good. No, really! - Marco Tabini:
They are, but there are two things we must not forget. First they are picking up the word PHP, which is a lot more than can be said of what was happening even a year ago. Second, my point is simply that it is not the role of the language to prevent a developer from shooting himself (or herself) in the foot—but this doesn’t mean that it isn’t anybody’s responsibility to do so.

(Via Planet PHP.)

Mozilla and hypocrisy

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