peterkwells on Mythryl: “Good piece, but my takeaway from it isn't only the single man who…”

Good piece, but my takeaway from it isn't only the single man who produced the packages at short notice, but the villages of people who spotted vulnerabilities, developed patches, distributed them, implemented them &c &c

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.comThe Man Who Saved the Internet YesterdayOndřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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