http://www.darknet.org.uk/2007/01/php-security-specialist-stefan-esser-resigns/ Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing & Computer Security Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2007/01/php-security-specialist-stefan-esser-resigns/#comment-50390 q!Bang Solutions » Blog Archive » Stefan Esser quits PHP Security Response Team Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:54:51 +0000 http://www.darknet.org.uk/2007/01/php-security-specialist-stefan-esser-resigns/#comment-50390 [...] Although this announcement was made last year, I did not catch it until today on darknet. This is sad news, and in my opinion, a big blow to PHP’s developer’s community. There are other efforts out there trying to improve PHP’s inherently weaker security model, such as PHPSec.org. For those of you who know me well, you know that I although I use PHP, I am not a huge fan of it. For some reason, some people argue that this is an easy language to pick up for beginners. I can only guess that it is because PHP is very “graphical” and users can generate web pages with ease. But as far as a language goes, I would think that python is a much easier language to pick up for beginners. [...] [...] Although this announcement was made last year, I did not catch it until today on darknet. This is sad news, and in my opinion, a big blow to PHP’s developer’s community. There are other efforts out there trying to improve PHP’s inherently weaker security model, such as PHPSec.org. For those of you who know me well, you know that I although I use PHP, I am not a huge fan of it. For some reason, some people argue that this is an easy language to pick up for beginners. I can only guess that it is because PHP is very “graphical” and users can generate web pages with ease. But as far as a language goes, I would think that python is a much easier language to pick up for beginners. [...]

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