Originally Posted by Village Idiot You haven't been rude at all, my goal is to help people make secure code, being pointed out on a mistake only helps. And I should add a line about it not being definitive, books have been made on this subject, 4 pages wont even scratch the surface.

Well thats cool then!

On the subject of databases and also password protection, it may be worth mentioning hashing/encrypting things such as passwords when they're stored, as a suprising amount of people don't do this!

I couldn't not link to this great read on helping to secure passwords (it's about collisions when hashing):
http://youngcoders.com/showthread.php?t=16159

Oh and hey Kyle , Nice to see you off YC .