2026-10-24 11:37 UTC
The php exploit might not have been a big deal.
I expect that we will see this a lot, as it turns out most of the exploits generated are not working, not new, or not a big deal. I also expect this to cause more burnout among cybersecurity people, and that people will autogen ‘fixes’ which will be lower quality than the bugs, and massively increase attack surface. (Heard one php fix was 12k lines of code).
My suggestion is to have offline backups and move a lot of your important stuff out of the cloud (or get backups of those). But you should do both anyway.
Replies (3)
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@lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems 2026-10-24 13:47
Really feels like this saying is quite applicable these days. “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
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@schnoopy@awful.systems 2026-10-25 05:44
The British something or rather is like “stockpile water cause the internet might go down and kill the plants due to the hackpocalypse”
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@Evinceo@awful.systems 2026-10-25 13:44
Too bad I’m gonna keep hearing “AI did PHP” for weeks.