Las Vegas casino magnet Steve Wynn was rumored to say that Defcon was "a dangerous and chaotic mess" that will "never set foot in one of my hotels". I guess his comments are understandable. During one conference the attendees reprogrammed the hotel elevators to stop on every floor and rerouted the pay per view channel to the casino's internal CCTV. Oh well, he probably said the same thing about Britney Spears after kicking her out of his hotel.
While Josh was out wowing the liberal bloggers this year, I was in Las Vegas with a good mix of 6000 reverse engineers, computer security professionals, federal agents, academics, and freelance hackers. There were solid talks about intellectual property law, the Tor Project, cool WIFI tricks, and other cool topics. Plus, lockpicking and WIFI villages and a couple off the hook parties.
At such a cool, security focused event it was no surprise that Drupal made an apperance. Outside of the peer to peer praise received when I introduced myself as doing Drupal development, the internal conference Defcon TV system (dctv.defcon.org), set up by RantMedia, was running Drupal. If you consider Drupal's track record for vulnerabilities against other CMS systems you can see why. Especially with the latest security release of Drupal 5.2, the robust Security Team and the policy of full disclosure, Drupal is poised to be the "most secure CMS".
I think WebAPP CMS from http://www.web-app.net is faster, more stable and much more secure. I actually doubt that there is any PHP script out there that can claim to be a secure script. Check security bulletins you will see hundreds of XSS and MySQL backdoors in Drupal and the other PHP CMS. Why not stick to the original Perl scripts and CMS?
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I tried to explain this to my friend, as opposed to rolling his own CMS. It old him good lucky when a client calls him when one of his websites are nuked out. That's pretty cool that drupal was dropped there too because you know those blood thirsty hackers are going to hammering on it to look for exploits now.