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To be fair, there are tons of very low severity vulnerabilities disclosed on HackerOne and this does not mean the application is vulnerable. Slack is definetly
by AntonyGarand 8y ago
To be fair, there are tons of very low severity vulnerabilities disclosed on HackerOne and this does not mean the application is vulnerable. Slack is definetly not vulnerable because it is written in php and you can pollute an iframe on their career website.
Having such a program in place is actually good for the application security as it does get audited by tons of hackers thanks to the monetary rewards.
- tabbott 8y agoI agree it's theoretically possible to write a secure project in PHP, but it's very difficult, especially if you're hiring people like crazy. If you divide the amount they've paid out in bounties by the number of bounties paid, and compare with their bounty tier rules, it's clear that a lot of the vulnerabilities that were reported in Slack are relatively severe. (And I agree bug bounty programs are great; we also use HackerOne)
- omnimus 8y agoIt is not about the language is it... I don't think there is so big difference between php and python. Besides Slack is most probably using whole lot more tech than php. It is about Zullip being open source.
- tabbott 8y agoIt's also about the language. See, for example, https://www.quora.com/Why-is-PHP-hated-by-so-many-developers https://www.quora.com/Why-is-PHP-hated-by-so-many-developers
- _bear 8y agoThat is from 2014. There have been many changes in the programming language since. Most people nowadays are using frameworks and abstraction layers which make most of these points moot.
- kennydude 8y agoIf you use a framework like Laravel it probably covers most things. You could easily write a massively insecure application in core python, but things like Zulip use Django which shields you from most of it.