My last few posts were deleted at the request of my employer. It seems no matter what I write someone wants to censor me. I don’t think I’ll be updating this blog anymore as a result. Cheers

UPDATE: Screw my employer. I write what I please.

UPDATE July 19, 2011: For some reason this post is showing up on the first page of search results for me as if its the most relevant piece of information about me. As such, I feel I should clarify what I’m talking about here since I’ve apparently censored myself.

This post related to a series of posts I made concerning security vulnerabilities that I discovered while employed at some unnamed company. The posts I made were written with care so as not to divulge details on my employer or the particular application in question. It was brought to my attention by my then employer that they demand I remove my posts of this abstract unidentifiable information related to the many and serious security vulnerabilities. I obliged despite being a bit frustrated considering the care I went through to make my posts general about security and the site in question unidentifiable.

My posts were generally explaining the importance to turn globals off in PHP which at the time the site in question was making extensive use of despite PHP officially keeping them off by default for a number of years before that time. I explained the reasoning why globals need to be off and left it at that.

Another censored post was related to SQL injection and ways one could ensure their database queries were protected from such attacks in PHP. I went through how SQL injections occur and how they can be prevented. There was no site specific information or any excerpts of code from the site. It was just a general post on SQL injection which was considered too much information for my then employer to be comfortable with.

My post sounds spiteful which rightfully I was at the time. My personal blog had been invaded by an employer trying to dictate what I could or couldn’t write about and in that sense it agitated me. The care with which I wrote the posts in a general way rather was disregarded and as such I felt the effort I put into creating the posts for the community at large was regarded as of little value. I equated the demand for censorship to the ignorance of my employer on the technical details involved.

Needless to say, I have continued updating this site and I’m proud of my contributions to the community however small they might be. I’ve always taken care not to divulge important information related to my employers or clients and I will continue that commitment.