On 07/13/2015 11:23 AM, Matt Tait wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm Matt Tait; a security researcher at Google, and I'm quite interested in > looking at and helping to build new security-related features within PHP; > i.e. features that reduce the likelihood that deployments of PHP end up > being hacked. > > In the short term, I'm quite interested in looking at ensuring that all of > the compiler and operating-system security features are enabled by default, > and later I hope to be looking at both hardening the PHP core against > various categories of memory-corruption vulnerability. Hopefully this work > will also end up improving the performance and security of various parts of > PHP core. > > In the longer-term I'm also interested in building user-visible features > for PHP that would allow developers who want or need to deploy PHP to > sensitive environments to prevent certain categories of error across their > entire codebase (such as SQL injection and so on) that are commonly used by > hackers. This would be particularly useful for many less-technical > companies who are worried about hackers, but unable to ensure that every > component they plug in to their website is coded with security-in-mind. > > I look forward to working with you all to make PHP a better product for PHP > developers and website owners!
Sounds great. There is some intro info along with the git account request form here: http://php.net/git-php.php -Rasmus
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
