{ 2006 10 30 }

Unexpected consequences

I guess Google’s code search has had two impacts:

  1. I’m getting more spam, probably because my email address is all over a lot of open source software.
  2. People who search PHP for “include” post “vulnerability reports” to security lists, without reading or understanding what the code does, and if it’s using “include” safely.

Posted by Casey on Monday, October 30th, 2006, at 6:19 pm.

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