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These days? I remember in the late 90s, early 2000s, and it really felt like 1/3 or so of all websites were vulnerable to things like PHP injection and SQL inje
by cfcosta 5y ago
These days? I remember in the late 90s, early 2000s, and it really felt like 1/3 or so of all websites were vulnerable to things like PHP injection and SQL injection. I remember having to bypass login pages to do benign things like changing my password.
- RhodesianHunter 5y agoThe vulnerabilities have gotten more complicated, and the intelligence of the average developer has stayed the same.
- toyg 5y agoConsidering the expansion rate of the developer market, chances are that rate has actually gone down. But so has the intelligence of attackers, for the same reason. I think things kinda balance out.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoWebsites have always been bad. In fact, they are probably better, these days, than they used to be. Web designers have traditionally not really been engineers, as such, so we can't really expect engineering discipline from them. Despite that, I feel like Web designers are a bit more disciplined, these days, than the days of yore. It may be because the industry has matured, and there's now a prevalence of knowledge on the matter (as well as a lot of tools and frameworks that are actually pretty good). The actual software behind them, that said tools and frameworks connect to, on the other hand...