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		infinity on July 16, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malware Hidden Inside JPG EXIF Headers From the perspective of an attacker it doesn't really matter if the malicious code contains deprecated things or lacks elegance or is generally ugly.

Arnor on July 16, 2013 [–]

You can configure your server to log usage of deprecated features in PHP so that the attack would ultimately appear in the log. Admittedly, it would still take a pretty vigilant Sys Admin to catch it.

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