On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 2:41 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>
wrote:

> source".  You also mentioned PHP's long history of FLOSS without also
> mentioning their long history at sucking at security.
>

Whoops, I should have toned that down a bit before hitting send.  To be
clear, I'm mostly talking about the ~2007 time frame where there was a lot
of tension between the PHP core team and various folks who wanted to make
PHP more secure in different ways.  I don't actually know what the
present-day status is -- suhosin seems to be still around, but (for
instance) https://sektioneins.de/en/categories/php.html hasn't had any
particular complaints since 2015.

So to be super clear: I'm just pointing out that there used to be issues
here; sometimes the community's interests do not exactly align.  Consider
me in the devil's advocate role again: I'd be interested to hear an
insider's opinion (Stas?) on how security issues are handled these days and
what the future outlook is,
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-74/product_id-128/PHP-PHP.html
doesn't look as nice as
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7758/product_id-35896/Facebook-Hhvm.html
but
maybe the latter is misleading; older vulnerabilities seem to be at
http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-7758/product_id-30684/Facebook-Hiphop-Virtual-Machine.html
for instance.
  --scott

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