PHP, is it Insecure?
Recently a major figure in php security decided his attempts to make PHP safer "from the inside out" where futile and he quit as part of the PHP Security Team.
Now there are a lot of articles and speculation about this and about PHP is "insecure".
All I can say is GET OVER IT. This all boils down to "Window of Opportunity".. Lets shift away from php and look at something else, Windows security VS Everyone else... How many windows desktops, servers and other boxes are online compared to all the other OS's put together? If you have a chance to win a million dollars by throwing a single dart, There are 10 blue circles, 2 white circles and 1 red circle, You get to pick the color... What color do you pick??? Blue of course because it provides the most "opportunity" for a win.
Its the same thing with hackers they focus on the largest "Window of Opportunity", Be it windows exploits, or PHP being pretty much the most prolific lang used to program websites, This is even carried over into cars, What cars get stolen the most? The most popular cars, Why? They provide the greatest "Window of Opportunity" for the thief to make money.
20 years from now Diamond on Steriods 3.0 might be the most popular lang out there and you know what, that is the lang hackers will focus on and therefore that is the lang that people will start saying is "Insecure".
Guns don't kill people, people kill people!
Programming Languages don't write insecure core, people write insecure code!
Give me ANY language you want and 30 minutes and I can write you a insecure application, Does that mean there is a problem with that language?

