Moriarty’s private Solar Empire fork has been seeing some recent activity. With the switch to the GPL License its a little more attractive to developers – that is if there were more SE developers without their own forks and weird ideas about open source gaming ;-)

The latest updated includes some security measures against session hijacking. In fairness SE is not Session based (it utilises Cookies almost entirely for the purpose) but here’s to at least one security improvement.

Maybe, just maybe SE will get something more robust like an Input Filter and placeholder SQL calls (i.e. similar to PEAR’s Prepare() function call) for auto escaping. Until then SE is still a high risk application and that does stretch into SE Generic as released by Mjac.

Sorry, guys. But you really really really need to add secure features…

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