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Chris Shiflett

Chris Shiflett is an author and speaker who leads the web application security practice at OmniTI.

A New Beginning

I decided to redo my web site. I plan to add occasional updates in popular blog fashion, but I'm not using any blogging software, so no feeds, comments, etc. Things will probably be a bit sparse in the beginning.

I recently finished an article for php|architect about cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgeries (CSRF) that will appear in the October issue. This is a nice magazine for PHP developers that's available in both print and electronic formats.

I had a great time at OSCON and had a chance to meet a lot of nice people. My presentation, PHP Under Attack, is available online at:

http://talks.php.net/show/php-under-attack

I hope you enjoy the new site.

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A New Beginning was posted on Sun, 31 Aug 2003 at 04:00:00 GMT.

2 Comments

1. Jon Tan's GravatarJon Tan said:

Following your reference in the most recent "new beginning" entry, I stopped by to see the first ever post. Then, to my amazement, I noticed that it was posted on my 30th birthday - spent at the beach with a frisbee, a football and old friends - in 2003. Maybe not significant, but the co-incidence after we've worked so hard on this latest version made me smile for all of that.

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 at 10:32:40 GMT Link

2. Chris Shiflett's GravatarChris Shiflett said:

Yeah, that's a neat coincidence. :-)

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 at 05:24:21 GMT Link

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