[phpa] Re: (Can we drop this subject?) Re: PHPA List move to VBulletin?

Well. Sorry, I know that Nick isn't considering anything else but after 
reading all those mails about PHPBB and Ikonboard I thought to write 
my comments for once. 

Off PHPA topic comment about security issues:
Many people need to completely trust the developers of web 
applications(I mean BBS, Shopping Carts,Webmail systems,...) and 
can't be aware of how exploitable the software really is. Security sites 
won't tell you everything and I'm used to get jumped on when 
mentioning unfixed security issues of ones "beloved software" at 
software discussions and keep quiet then. Posting directly the exploit to 
boards, as many people want isn't an option since I don't want the 
software to be exploited, I just want people to be aware of problems 
which are reported, but not addressed by devs.

This mail isn't directed to anyone(and especially not to Nick! your 
software is awesome) but it's a topic which bugs me as web developer 
and as someone who reports security exploits alot. I doubt that many 
people are aware of this.

Sorry again for abusing the list for an off topic security comment.

Patrick

On 13 Mar 2002 at 8:43, Barry Boone wrote:

From:                   "Barry Boone" <boone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:                     <phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:                [phpa] Re: (Can we drop this subject?) Re: 
PHPA List move to VBulletin?
Date sent:              Wed, 13 Mar 2002 08:43:27 -0600
Send reply to:          phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

> 
> This is just another reason we should have a board too <G>
> 
> Sorry, couldn't resist... hehe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: egill [mailto:egill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:27 AM
> To: phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [phpa] (Can we drop this subject?) Re: PHPA List move to
> VBulletin?
> 
> 
> 
> Can we please drop the subject? It's getting a bit out of hands...
> 
> Didn't Nick say he's sticking with the list?
> 
> --
> egill r. e.
> 
> Quoting Patrick <marketing@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > 
> > Generally I wouldn't use those Ikonboard or PHPBB. There were several 
> > PHPBB boards which have been hacked recently and I was running an 
> > Ikonboard (v3 I think) myself for some time. While trying to secure it
> 
> > I found a couple of highly exploitable bugs and just would have needed
> to do
> > a 
> > google search to be able to steal user/admin passwords. There was a
> common 
> > sense of security missing and even if those bugs have been fixed I
> wouldn't
> > 
> > trust any software which used to be that exploitable at times.
> > 
> > I don't know VBulletin but this seems to the be the best choice if you
> get it
> > free 
> > anyway.
> > 
> > Patrick
> > 
> > On 13 Mar 2002 at 11:09, O.Hardt - Mail Listen wrote:
> > 
> > Date sent:          Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:09:30 +0100
> > From:               "O.Hardt - Mail Listen" <mlists@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > To:                 phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:            [phpa] Re: PHPA List move to VBulletin?
> > Send reply to:      phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   I prefer Ikonboard (www.ikonboard.com) , although it uses CGI the
> speed
> > >   is great, the cpu consumption is low and it has plenty of options.
> > > 
> > >   And best of all, it's free and you have a large support community.
> > > 
> > >   Most of todays BB have a option to "track" a forum, so you get all
> > >   the mails of the forum directly send to you. So no need to use the
> > >   web browser.
> > >   
> > > 
> > > Bye,
> > > 
> > >   Oliver
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Visit http://news.ohardt.com
> > > for the latest news from all over the world.
> > > 
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