r/technology • u/anonskeptic5 • 7h ago

Security US, allies warn of critical vulnerabilities in programming underlying 70% of the internet

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/php-cyber-vulnerability-openai-warning-01129058
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u/Soupdeloup 6h ago

Initial handful of comments on this post are incredibly ignorant of how the world of programming works. As far as I can tell from the release, AI didn't cause this issue, it just helped find it.

No language or framework is 100% secure and it's immensely better for it to be caught ahead of time with AI than to just sit exposed for who knows how long, with new things constantly added on top of and around it.

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u/DutchSpoon 5h ago edited 5h ago

Correct, these vulnerabilities affects php 5.4 and up. Version 5.4 came out in 2012. That's 14 years ago.

AI couldn't have caused it back then ;)