it's been so much fun to read about the php vulnerabilities & other hacks. it's sometimes shocking to see how much of the internet still runs on it (which makes a ton of sense). when i was a kid, i built so many php sites with mysql & tools like phpmyadmin. one of my sites used to get 50k+ uniques a month & almost all my work went into making a fuck ton of low level optimizations so i didn't burn my bandwidth & everything remained pretty fast since a lot of ppl still were transitioning to broadband at the time. i remember even hacking vbulletin so i can use it for free everywhere etc. that was a while ago so my mind still treats php as like a kids tool & not as something that powers critical infrastructure. unlike other ppl's posts on here though my take is that discovering these types of exploits is actually great, the sooner we find these using advanced ai, the more incentivized legacy institutions will be to address technical debt like this. economic liabilities are an excellent forcing function for societal & technical advancement / adoption. also these guys should be using sophisticated ai to secure their systems anyway. there may obviously be some costs that occur to normal users which sucks but everything is a trade off in society.