Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
by AntonyGarand on Thursday July 26, 2018 @10:29PM
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To be fair, there are tons of very low severity vulnerabilities disclosed on HackerOne and this does not mean the application is vulnerable. Slack is definetly not vulnerable because it is written in php and you can pollute an iframe on their career website.
Having such a program in place is actually good for the application security as it does get audited by tons of hackers thanks to the monetary rewards.
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I agree it's theoretically possible to write a secure project in PHP, but it's very difficult, especially if you're hiring people like crazy.
If you divide the amount they've paid out in bounties by the number of bounties paid, and compare with their bounty tier rules, it's clear that a lot of the vulnerabilities that were reported in Slack are relatively severe.
(And I agree bug bounty programs are great; we also use HackerOne)
If you use a framework like Laravel it probably covers most things.
You could easily write a massively insecure application in core python, but things like Zulip use Django which shields you from most of it.
It is not about the language is it... I don't think there is so big difference between php and python. Besides Slack is most probably using whole lot more tech than php.
It is about Zullip being open source.
It's also about the language. See, for example,
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-PHP-hated-by-so-many-developers