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in thread CGI Honeypot?

You have been told at least twice now where to get a drop-in replacement for the horrible, buggy, insecure, widely abused, irresponsibly built code you are using. You have been told a number of times that the code is in fact horrible, buggy, insecure, widely abused, and irresponsibly built.

Now, if there's a piece of horrible, buggy, insecure, widely abused, irresponsibly built code is deployed purposefully by someone who knows of a safer alternative which takes almost no work to deploy what would you call that?

Are you on General Motors' side that it was okay to keep selling cars with buggy, dangerous ignition switches? Of course not. Are you okay with the infant toys that made it to market covered in lead paint? Of course not. When things are dangerously unfit for purpose, you're on the same page as any other reasonable person, I'm sure.

I never called you a sociopath. I said that to keep deploying Matt Wright's FormMail knowing what you now know would be irresponsible and bordering on sociopathic behavior. The difference between a sociopath and someone who isn't is that the sociopath willingly engages in sociopathic behavior on a regular basis. Far different from calling you someone who does, I'm hoping you don't. I'm hoping you won't put this piece of crud on servers, waiting for it to spam anyone and everyone.

If you want to see what Matt Wright says about Matt's Script Archive vs. the NMS project, take a look at his own page about it. Note where he says:

I would highly recommend downloading the nms versions if you wish to learn CGI programming. The code you find at Matt's Script Archive is not representative of how even I would code these days. My interests and activies have moved on, however, and I just have not found the time to update all of my scripts. One of the major reasons for this is that they work for many people. For this reason, I will continue to provide them to the public, but am also pleased to make you aware of well-coded alternatives.

The author of the code you're using suggests something else as better designed, better implemented, and better maintained. We linked to nms and suggested nms formmail a number of times now. Stop being defensive and start defending other people using the Internet. The nms team very likely has fixed more classes of exploit by starting from scratch than you'll ever be able to work into the MSA version.

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Re^4: CGI Honeypot?
by Hans Castorp (Sexton) on Jul 21, 2014 at 15:39 UTC

    Just wanted to let you know I'm working on it. I'm not reading your post, though. Not helpful

    Also not trying to spark more confrontation...I just don't need the sensations I'm getting from reading your words right now. I know you mean well.