Often, these days vulnerabilities are still being found in web applications. PHP has a pretty bad reputation regarding security, including one of t...
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PHP Security 101: Don't use PHP
PHP isn't secure by design. But this isn't about choosing a different language. :)
I remember when they took variables from index.php?var=value and assigned $var automatically.
That was bad, but it was also 17 years ago.
These days most of PHP security issues come from interacting with other technologies, not from PHP itself.
Sadly, that doesn't matter if people will just parrot what other people said instead of properly learning a language and forming their own opinion.
I believe the fighting / pushing back comes down to mostly outside factors.
I'm sure between two of us, as "competing" PHP framework developers, we could have a civilised debate and come up with scenarios where Laravel is good to use, and where it's not so good to use, and where CodeIgniter is good to use, or not as good to use.
But add a deadline with real project to the mix, and suddenly it's not about "ideal scenario" anymore. Now it's about knowing that you can do X amount in Y days with Z setup.
If there's supporting articles for your choice of tools, and loads of negative about all the alternatives, it's much easier to convince your boss to go with your preference.
So I believe most developer fights are really about just wanting to make more positive noise about their own toolset, and also some want to make loads of negative noise about competing frameworks / languages / technology.
Examples to back this statement up?
I don't think PHP's secure by design, because they allow developers to be vulnerable by some of PHP's defaults. And actually Pert Soomann pointed one of them out.
Although I don't believe that's an issue in new versions of PHP.
And now-a-days I believe it's mostly developers' fault for insecure PHP applications. Especially since PHP-7.2.x ships with lobsodium for cryptography, htmlentities for XSS protection, filter_var for both validating and sanitizing variables(I don't see many apps use this though).
The problem is between chair and table
The OWASP website uses Google Analytics too, and I definitely trust them about security.
Same for Paragonie by the way, they've been around for a while and are definitely trustworthy.
You might hate Google and it's your right, but it has nothing to do with the quality of these publications.
But just because they use Google, doesn't mean their content is bad in terms of security. You're possibly being skeptical at this point.
I understand what you're getting at though. If someone is serious about security and privacy, they wouldn't be using Google anything.
Thank you for mentioning these valuable resources, really appreciate it.
I don't know. shrug
Their posts are really good though, at least I think.