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PHP continues to grow and is one of the most popular and modern languages for web nowadays. PHP grows together with its community that drives public events, meetups and conferences. That's what I learned from the last events I visited.

Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text for years: it is probing a series of security failures in which employees built applications that logged unencrypted password data for Facebook users and stored it in plain text on internal company servers.