Re: [News] Identity Management Works Better in the Open

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:35:27 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Will a Little Openness Solve Your Web Identity Crisis?

It worked wonders for you Roy Schestowitz.

Your site, www.schestowitz.com was hacked and owned a couple of weeks ago.
Additionally an embedded trojan was on the site for months before you
decided to do something about it.



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On 2008-04-01, Moshe Goldfarb <> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:35:27 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Will a Little Openness Solve Your Web Identity Crisis?
>
> It worked wonders for you Roy Schestowitz.
>
> Your site, www.schestowitz.com was hacked and owned a couple of weeks ago.
> Additionally an embedded trojan was on the site for months before you
> decided to do something about it.

And not, it was fscked exactly the way I mentioned a few days ago, via
bad PHP crapware.

The lesson is

1) PHP is bad for you
2) PHP gets you pwned

I think that I forgot to mention that I do not like PHP?

i

Ignoramus3733 <> writes:

> On 2008-04-01, Moshe Goldfarb <> wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:35:27 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Will a Little Openness Solve Your Web Identity Crisis?
>>
>> It worked wonders for you Roy Schestowitz.
>>
>> Your site, www.schestowitz.com was hacked and owned a couple of weeks ago.
>> Additionally an embedded trojan was on the site for months before you
>> decided to do something about it.
>
> And not, it was fscked exactly the way I mentioned a few days ago, via
> bad PHP crapware.
>
> The lesson is
>
> 1) PHP is bad for you
> 2) PHP gets you pwned
>
> I think that I forgot to mention that I do not like PHP?
>
> i

From a position of ignorance I am afraid.

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