note 32490 deleted from security.database by didou

Note Submitter: thesibster@hotmail.com ---- Note that if a semicolon (;) or double hyphen (--) appears within a string, it is not dangerous to queries. Addslashes() forces the user input not to terminate a string, so as long as you enclose the validated user input in a string, there's no danger with those particular two bits of syntax. On a completely different note, I think yet another good way to secure passwords, etc. from being readable by someone with access to the server is to place them in functions in compiled files so that they are not just plain text. This works with Java classes, and I imagine it works with COM and .NET as well. My only problem with this is that the Java to PHP interaction and the .NET functionality are not yet solidly defined, and COM doesn't work under anything but Windows. I'd appreciate it if someone would post a way better than Java to do this on a non-Windows system.