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 panacea

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 discussion

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread JOSEFSSON Erik
On 07/16/2012 01:07 AM, Matt Platte wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:26:54AM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote: On 15 July 2012 03:08, Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the What's are the issues with PHP? I'm one of those

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-15 at 12:37pm, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-07-14 at 10:53pm, bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote: [Free alternatives to] RoundCube / SquirrelMail (webmail): ??? The (very minimal) NULL webmail client is written in C:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread J David Eisenberg
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On 12-07-15 at 12:37pm, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-07-14 at 10:53pm, bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote: [snip] Right now - i.e. already in Debian (testing) - is CiderWebmail. ...but both my recommendations still stand:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Mendis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In his 2010 Keynote at The Next HOPE, Dan Kaminsky pointed out the following: The bottom-line is that there just isn't a largemeasurable difference in the security posturesfrom language to language or framework toframework --specifically Microsoft

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 12:37 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Correct, Diaspora is written in Rails, which unfortunately is similarly worrisome as PHP: even if (arguably) the underlying Ruby language has saner coding style and community habits, Ruby on Rails tend to focus on rapidly mashing

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Sean Alexandre
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:08:20 -0500 Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the FreedomBox, what are our solutions? Static content would be good to keep on the table as an option, for cases where it can be used. Micah Lee from EFF

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Michael Rauch
On 07/16/2012 09:56 PM, Sean Alexandre wrote: Another comment from Micah's presentation was that some CMS systems have the ability to generate static content. So you can create content using CMS shortcuts, and then have it generate static content to put on your website. wget can be of help

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-16 at 02:06pm, Ben Mendis wrote: Sure, PHP isn't my favorite language... but blaming bad code on PHP, and assuming that changing the language is a panacea for security, is pretty silly. Is it me you call silly? I believe I did not argue that security is only an issue with PHP, or

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Mendis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On 12-07-16 at 02:06pm, Ben Mendis wrote: Is it me you call silly? I think the argument that the language can be used as a determining factor or even as a metric for the security of an application

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-15 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2012-07-14 at 20:08:20 -0500, Nick M. Daly wrote: OwnCloud (file hosting): ??? git-annex assistant? (haskell) http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/ I believe it will require something else for sharing, however -- Elena ``of Valhalla''

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-15 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 15 July 2012 03:08, Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the What's are the issues with PHP? FreedomBox, what are our solutions? CryptoCat (secure chat): CryptoCat Version 2 (???, in development) Diaspora /

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-15 at 10:26am, Melvin Carvalho wrote: On 15 July 2012 03:08, Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the What's are the issues with PHP? The issue with PHP is the high risk of security flaws. It is a mixture of a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-07-14 at 10:53pm, bnewb...@robocracy.org wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote: CryptoCat (secure chat): CryptoCat Version 2 (???, in development) End client XMPP+OTR clients plus Prosody running on the device? If CryptoCat as-is is desirable, the server-side PHP

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-15 Thread Leandro Noferini
bnewb...@robocracy.org writes: [...] CryptoCat (secure chat): CryptoCat Version 2 (???, in development) End client XMPP+OTR clients plus Prosody running on the device? I am not an expert but I tried prosody and I found it needs a SRV record in order to receive connections because the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-15 Thread Kim Alvefur
On 2012-07-15T15:53:32 CEST, Leandro Noferini wrote: I am not an expert but I tried prosody and I found it needs a SRV record in order to receive connections because the protocol XMPP. As SRV requires a fixed ip address is this a problem for freedombox? SRV records are not strictly required,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-15 Thread Matt Platte
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:26:54AM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote: On 15 July 2012 03:08, Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the What's are the issues with PHP? I'm one of those in-a-hurry developers Jonas mentions. He is

[Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-14 Thread Nick M . Daly
So, since there is a lot of concern about including PHP on the FreedomBox, what are our solutions? CryptoCat (secure chat): CryptoCat Version 2 (???, in development) Diaspora / Friendica (social networking): Libertree (Ruby, Alpha) RoundCube / SquirrelMail (webmail): ???

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-14 Thread bnewbold
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote: CryptoCat (secure chat): CryptoCat Version 2 (???, in development) End client XMPP+OTR clients plus Prosody running on the device? If CryptoCat as-is is desirable, the server-side PHP code is 500 lines including comments and could be ported