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…I’ve been there, for years.

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So most of you know by now about the AOL Search Data Leak… I was reading a blog today (I would link to it but I accidently closed the tab and can’t remember the link - sorry to the guy/girl who owns that blog!) and I found a link to this result showing a guy searching for some rather “unusual” information. I hope it didn’t turn out to be as bad as it looks!???

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Cal Evans recently interviewed George Schlossnagle and you can read the interview at Zend.com: http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/799

It’s a great read. I’m still amazed at how OmniIT has all those guys working at the same place!

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It still amazes me how many people seem to use addslashes() in their PHP projects rather than using mysql_real_escape_string(). Now, don’t get me wrong - I know that I have used addslashes in the past - but that was when I was a pure n00b in PHP! I’ve been using mysql_real_escape_string for quite a while now for many reasons. For one, when using MySQL you should be using the Native functions, if possible, to add slashes … it just makes sense. I feel that there’s too many books out there teaching n00bs, along with too many n00bs teaching n00bs how to program like this.

These people are usually the same people using $_REQUEST rather than $_GET or $_POST. It’s pure laziness and it erks me to see it.

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I’ve been big on Security over the past 6 months or so and I’ve pretty much adopted the Chris Shiflett method of securing User Passwords. It just seems to work for me mentally and physically - meaning I don’t feel stressed out about Passwords being stolen as easily.
Example:

$clean = array();

$clean['username'] = $_POST['username'];

$clean['password'] = $_POST['password'];

$salt = ‘CLENARD’;

$password = $salt . md5($clean['password'] . $salt);

?>

Of course that’s a simple example and one that Chris Shiflett explains in several examples but it’s pretty similar to what I’ve been using.

How do you secure your passwords? How do you filter your Data? I’m no PHP Expert and never claimed to be… but I love hearing how others secure their passwords. I used to use SHA1 because people claimed md5 reverse engineering was easy to do, which I no longer believe. I’ve tried many “engines” to test MD5 hashes and only one password actually worked out of hundreds I’ve tried.

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I’ve just hopped on 3 new projects… I’m not sure why I’ve done this as my Health problems may slow me down later, if the doctors find anything. All three projects are pretty damn big too!  One is an Automobile Website…actually a Portal full of Auto Info. Another site is for ..I can’t say….but this one will be the biggest of the three. I’m actually excited about this one as I know it will turn out pretty successful on a nationwide level. Then there’s another one that’s like an entertainment type portal. It might come out pretty successful but not huge, if you ask me. It will be kind of different from the others though. I have alot of ideas for this one to make it a little different from other sites that I’ve looked at over the past few days.

All will incorporate PHP, MySQL (I may try oracle for ONE!), AJAX and more web 2.0 designs for them.

Who owns these? Oh, that would be me.

I’m just trying to get more sites under my belt now… right now I have about 100 Domains but only about 20 that are built out now. I may start selling some of the other domains later, I guess I’ll see what happens.

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