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Yeah... this appears to have been overblown.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2026
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I mean, the national cybersecurity council here saw exploits happening in the wild. So it's definitely possible and practical enough for it to happen.
Hi, can you please provide some sources for this? I can't seems to find anything official. Thanks
Official source this is based on is https://www.ncsc.nl/en/alerts/update-php-vulnerabilities-remain-a-reason-for-immediate-patching, which mentions they're investigating signs of exploits and that they have at least one confirmed exploit that happened abroad.
It's still a complex exploit, mind, but not an unusable one.
more references to exploits in the wild.
It'd be far better for the internet to eliminate any remaining vestiges of PHP.
"But the reason it was not crazy for me was that I actually don’t have any system running PHP myself." - Ondřej Surý
Has a bit of the same vibes as our tech overlords forbidding their children from using their products.
You know, except that Ondře does this stuff for all of us and we get to use it for free.
Is it just a matter of time until the internet goes offline?
Well yes, obviously, the heat death of the universe will happen eventually.
In the near future for us? Probably not, too much relies on it.
When exactly? I don't know, and anyone who does is not telling.
Username relevant.
Yes, and experts have been saying that for a few years. It's so large an attack area that sooner or later a bad actor may succeed.
The counter argument is that it is also very compartmentalized and surprisingly nimble. Even with major physical infrastructure being destroyed by Iran, Ukraine, Russia, China, etc., the internet itself is basically fine.
As long as there's two computers and a single twisted pair left, you've technically still got an internet
Internet is dead and after this AI shit ramps up to full speed, even the dead remains will become useless.
What a very relaxed and laid back guy Mr. Sury is! And his statements are fundamentally informative.
I'm glad he's running the internet.
Just seems likely with AI and terrorist groups. If it's not hacked then couldn't the internet cables in the ocean just be destroyed?
Russia is working on it. If that’s not what you want, help Ukraine as much as you can.