Give that man a beer! Cheers Ond?ej Surý

Interesting Atlantic interview by Charlie Warzel with PHP developer and security hero Ondrej Surý in the wake of that almost Black October internet meltdown last week. Surý is a relatively unknown volunteer working on a relatively unknown, but incredibly important programming language known as PHP. PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page” and was a language used to create websites. The name was changed to mean “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”, which is a recursive abbreviation where part of the spelled out name is the abbreviation itself…it’s a nerd thing. Anyway, bugs and security loopholes that have apparently been present for years in PHP were found by an AI agent last week. Given that PHP is used on more than two-thirds of all websites, all WordPress sites and many other systems, these vulnerabilities could have become a serious problems for those websites, opening backdoors for hackers who could ransack the sites, inject, malware, or simply take them offline with their…