Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-16 at 11:38pm, Ben Mendis wrote: > Arguing which languages or coding styles do or don't produce secure > code is a religious argument, unless you have objective metrics to > back up your claims. And frankly, unless you're the one putting in the > hours to do the rewrite then the discuss

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP is not the problem, security is!

2012-07-17 Thread simo
On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 16:34 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > On 07/17/2012 02:45 PM, simo wrote: > > Hi Boruch, I have been working with SELinux for quite a few years > > now, and I find it complete and tested on the ground > No arguing with any product whose completeness and state of testing > has be

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP is not the problem, security is!

2012-07-17 Thread Boruch Baum
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/2012 02:45 PM, simo wrote: > Hi Boruch, I have been working with SELinux for quite a few years > now, and I find it complete and tested on the ground No arguing with any product whose completeness and state of testing has been approved of, an

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP is not the problem, security is!

2012-07-17 Thread simo
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 15:35 -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > > From: Rick robvanderhoe...@ziggo.nl> > > wrote: > > > >> Yesterday Nick Daly started a discussion about PHP alternatives. > >> PHP is crap, and has a very bad security reputation. Should we > >> use programs that are written in PHP for

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2012-07-17 Thread Melvin Carvalho
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Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP is not the problem, security is!

2012-07-17 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
> In my particular usage case, Tomoyo revealed alot of nonsense that > some Firefox add-ons were doing, and allowed me to easily restrict the > wayward activities. And the add-ons continued to function fine anyway. This is one of the things i like about TOMOYO, it can show you exactly what a prog

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2012-07-17 Thread frankdumaunn
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2012-07-17 Thread Melvin Carvalho
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Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:06:04PM -0400, Ben Mendis wrote: > And Dan Kaminsky and Jeremiah Grossman are not the only two security > guys who have come to this conclusion. > > Sure, PHP isn't my favorite language... but blaming bad code on PHP, and > assuming that changing the language is a panace