PHP2Shell vulnerability: AI was fast, humans were the bottleneck
Did AI really find the PHP flaws that took the French Interior Ministry, the Port of Rotterdam and Australia's cyber agency offline? The episode argues the bug had been spotted years earlier and parked because nobody could prove it was exploitable. Frontier models made that proof cheap, turning a memory bug into remote code execution. Then the humans slowed things down: a leaked embargo, a deleted Calif exploit video, and Chainguard publishing patches early.
Listeners walk away able to question their own "probably fine" backlog, see why a public fix hands attackers a map, check for…
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