On Tuesday, the world found out about two massive security vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that is used by roughly 70 percent of websites. The flaw was discovered by cybersecurity researchers using a frontier model from OpenAI. If they exploited it, attackers could gain full control of servers, stealing or copying anything inside or simply taking sites offline.
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