On the PHP Security Blog today, there's This post with a little bit different take on the International PHP Conference - of course, more from the security side of things.

I really enjoyed my stay, because I learned a lot about how the german PHP community ticks and what information they miss in my documentation. However from a security point of view the PHP conference was a nightmare...

The NH Hotel had a open and free WLAN during the conference days, which I consider quite stupid at a place where lots of IT people are meeting. The connection to the internet was quite slow, so the danger of a large scale anonymous attack was quite low, but a lot of people were using the anonymity to perform XSS and SQL injection attacks on websites of other visitors.

While this dosen't have much to do with PHP itself, it is interesting to see that there was enough XSS and SQL injections going on to get noticed. Granted, some of it was probably at the request of someone else for testing purposes, but there's still potential there. I think the PHP Lounge was a good idea if for nothing else than providing developers with a sounding board for these kinds of issues, a way for them to have others help them test...