PHP security team member gives up

http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/82500

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Stefan Esser, PHP security specialist and member of the official PHP
Security Response Team has, he says, had enough - in his blog he has
announced his immediate resignation from the PHP Security Response Team.

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He says that he had stopped counting the number of times he was called a
traitor when he published a bug report on a vulnerability in PHP.

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While Esser feels that certain PHP functions are intrinsically unsafe (for
example allow_url_fopen/allow_url_include) and should therefore be
revised, many developers, including PHP specialists Zend, think that the
security problems in PHP applications have simply been caused by
inexperienced programmers.

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In his view it is also irresponsible to cease proper support for the PHP4
tree.
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